I’m always create new forwarding emails for different websites – helps me track down if and when their email list is hacked… To save logging into cPanel or WHM, I’ve created a little script to quickly add new forwarding emails.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 | #!/bin/sh ######################################################## # # # QUICK EMAIL FORWARDER # # # # Coded by Noah Hearle, Design Extreme # # http://designextreme.com # # # # Created: 2017/01/23 # # Modified: 2017/02/20 # # # # Post your comments at: # # https://blog.noah.hearle.com/quick-email-forwarder/ # # # # Usage: sh ./quick_email_forwarder.sh <alias> # # # ######################################################## ## ARGUMENTS ## alias=$1 ## SETTINGS ## user=useraccount domain=mydomain.com list=/etc/valiases/$domain last_line="$(tail -n 1 $list)" email=$alias@$domain destination=main-email@$domain if [ "$(grep -c $email $list)" -eq 0 ]; then sed -i '$ d' $list echo $email: $destination >> $list sort $list -o $list echo $last_line >> $list chown --from=root.root $user.mail $list echo -e "\e[92mSuccess:\e[0m Added email: $email" else echo -e "\e[33mWarning:\e[0m $email already exists" fi |
Edit the settings to fit your domain and email setup. For multiple destinations, just use “, ” to separate the email addresses.
To make your special new email address, simply call the script with the alias as the only argument.
1 | sh ./quick_email_forwarder.sh alias |
Let me know what you think!