qmail can be told to not check the system homedirs/password db (and to
check its own system user db instead).  see the qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu
programs.

also, fastforward can be used as an aliases alternative:
http://cr.yp.to/fastforward.html

-tcl.


On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Mark Bradbury wrote:

> The reason we changed from Qmail to Postfix is the issue of alias management
> 
> with Qmail
> if you have a user foo
> and an alias foo:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> mail sent to foo will end up in foos Maildir
> because the alias file is checked last
> 
> this meens stuffing around with .forawrd/.qmail files
> 
> while postfix and send mail check the aliases file first so no .forward/.qmail files 
>are needed
> 
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