email forwarders for new users

[elbertlo]

I'm putting up a forum. One of the come-ons will be a vanity email forwarding address to the registered email. As example, if I register my account as john@gmail.com with barack as user name to the forum www.candidate.me, barack@candidate.com will forward emails to john@gmail.com.

I've already read the API for forwarding but I still have some questions:

1) will forwarders eat up server resources/bandwidth? or is it just tells the sender to send somewhere else?

2) Can I do a PHP script to generate the XML?

3) Can this be with a shared hosting account?

Thanks for the help

[cPanelDavidG]

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2) Can I do a PHP script to generate the XML?

PHP can use and manipulate XML, so the answer is yes.

3) Can this be with a shared hosting account?

You will need a minimum of a reseller account on a cPanel/WHM server to make use of the cPanel/WHM APIs.

[elbertlo]

Thanks for the confirmation. That's what I suspected that I'm supposed to do.