Using the EME backend, you can send emails to groups of people. However, there’s now also the option of doing this via your favorite mail client, via a commandline script that EME provides (called “cli_mail.php”). For this to work, you need to be able to pipe emails to scripts, and below I’ll explain how it (can) works for Postfix as mailserver:
- in /etc/postfix/transport, add your email you want to forward to the group and a custom postfix transport. E.g.:
mygroupemail@mydomain.com my-custom-transport: - After that, compile the file (postmap /etc/postfix/transport)
- Define that custom transport in /etc/postfix/master.cf:
my-custom-transport unix – n n – – pipe
flags=DRhu user=www-data argv=/usr/bin/php -q /path/to/wp-content/plugins/events-made-easy/cli_mail.php -d ${recipient} - reload postfix (postfix reload)
For all options available to cli_mail.php, do “/usr/bin/php -q /path/to/wp-content/plugins/events-made-easy/cli_mail.php -h”
(-f ${sender} and -d {$recipient} are typically used for postfix piping, but you can use other options too)
You can use (as in the example above) “-d <email>” as destination, after which EME will search all defined groups for that email address (there’s an option when editing a group to specify this email address). You can also use “–groupid=<groupid>” as destination (and then you don’t need to specify this email in your group).