Introduction

If you use the Mailhandler module and you want different user accounts to have their own mailbox to send content to a site, you are required to configuring multiple Mailhandler mailboxes for each account as well as multiple feeds to process each mailbox. The provisioning of mailboxes on a mail server and configuration of so many Mailhandler mailboxes and the associated feeds could be automated, but it would be pretty gnarly.

The solution we came up with was to have a single mailbox on the mail server, and have a single mailhandler and single feed processor for the a site. Instead of each user getting their own inbox, we have a single inbox that collects email from any number of addresses. This can be done by either configuring the mail server to have a single ‘catch all’ address or, if available, a plus addressing scheme (think GMail).

What does this module do?

The module exposes the 'Send content by mail' permission.
The module provides a user interface to generate unique 'email addresses' for each user on the site with the 'Send content by mail' permission.

Why is that useful?