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
> > >
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