Re: postmaster account

[Ken Jones]

Mark Chesney wrote:
 
 I'd rather not have a postmaster account for each virtual domain, but
 instead forward all of them to a single mailbox. I would however like to be
 able to to qmailadmin to administrate my domains. How can I have the best of
 both worlds?
 
 Mark

Break out your favorite C editor and hack away ;]

Or use the code as is, but configure it the way you want.

echo "user@domain"  .qmail-postmaster

will redirect any incoming email for the postmaster to
any other email address on the net.

Just put that file in each virtual domain directory and
qmail-local will read it. Make sure it is owned by
vpopmail/vchkpw

Ken Jones

RE: postmaster account

[Mark Chesney]

-- qmailadmin ---
Name postmaster already used.
. ADD FORWARD ACCOUNT  .
Forward Email Address:
Local Name:

Forward Email Address should be of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Local name should be of the form: popaccount
IE,
Forward: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LocalName: sales
That would send all mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-- sample domain listing --
[root@paradigm:/home/vpopmail/domains/axleless.com]
# ls -la
total 11
drwx--  3 vpopmail  vchkpw   512 Aug 23 13:15 .
drwx--  4 vpopmail  vchkpw   512 Aug 18 17:47 ..
-rw---  1 vpopmail  vchkpw34 Aug 18 17:41 .dir-control
-rw---  1 vpopmail  vchkpw62 Aug 18 17:44 .qmail-jks
-rw---  1 vpopmail  vchkpw21 Aug 19 05:56 .qmail-questions
-rw---  1 vpopmail  vchkpw63 Aug 18 17:43 .qmail-webmaster
-rw---  1 vpopmail  vchkpw 0 Aug 18 17:41 .vpasswd.lock
drwx--  3 vpopmail  vchkpw   512 Aug 22 22:27 postmaster
-rw---  1 vpopmail  vchkpw   110 Aug 18 17:41 vpasswd
-rw---  1 vpopmail  vchkpw  2180 Aug 18 17:41 vpasswd.cdb


-Original Message-
From: Rick Griffith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: postmaster account


Excuse me,

I did try it and it works fine on my system. I have all the postmaster for
all 85 domains forwarding to one account..

That means you already have a forward set up for postmaster.

-rick

 You should probably try it out before you tell someone to do it.

 qmailadmin complains: "Name postmaster already used."

 -Original Message-
 From: Rick Griffith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 9:35 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: RE: postmaster account


 Yes,

 Login to qmailadmin and click "add new forward"
 Then enter the email address you want to forward to and
 localname as postmaster. Then click OK.

 This is all you need to do..

 -rick


  I do want to receive mail addressed to the each postmaster account, by
 means
  of forwarding or redirection to another mailbox, not by checking each by
  means of pop. But I also want qmailadmin to work. Changing postmaster
to a
  .qmail-postmaster file breaks qmailadmin.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Rick Griffith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
  Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 12:30 AM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: postmaster account
 
 
  don't delete the postmaster account you created within vpopmail.
 
  if you don't want an account to have to check within your "mail program"
  then just don't include it. But every domain has to have a postmaster
  account. It doesn't mean you have to check it.
 
  Maybe we/I are not understanding exactly what you are trying to do..
 
  -rick
 
   Deleting the domains/somedomain.com/postmaster directory to create a
   domains/somedomain.com/.qmail-postmaster errors out qmailadmin, "bad
  file".
  
   -Original Message-
   From: Rick Griffith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
   Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 2:34 PM
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Subject: RE: postmaster account
  
  
   Just don't add the postmaster accounts in you "mail program". Have
   postmaster forward to the account already have in your "mail program"
   -rick
  
I missphrased my problem. I don't want to delete the account, I want
 to
  do
away with the mailbox. Who wants to add an account for each domain
in
   their
email program? postmaster%domain1.com, postmaster%domain2.com
   
-Original Message-
From: Gabriel Ambuehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 7:11 AM
To: Mark Chesney
Subject: Re: postmaster account
   
   
Hello Mark,
   
Tuesday, August 22, 2000, 2:50:23 PM, you wrote:
   
 I'd rather not have a postmaster account for each virtual domain,
   
The existence of postmaster@domain is required by RfC. It would be
QUITE bad to kill that account.
   
 but instead forward all of them to a single mailbox.
   
Uuh. This is asking for problems. Hard to tell what's going on when
a
error occurs. I wouldn't do it...
   
   
   
   
Best regards,
 Gabriel