> From: "Dan Harkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:35:26 -0800
>
> BTW, while testing $USERNAME_EXTENSION just now I had an unexpected
> failure. I tried to 'inc' my mail but it wasn't working because it was
> looking for /var/spool/mail/dan$USERNAME_EXTENSION.
>
> Did you intend this, Neil? It's a consequence of appending the environment
> variable while in getuserinfo(), which controls nmh's global idea of what
> the username is.
>
> I know with sendmail this is undesirable, because the "plussed user" email
> addresses definitely correspond to a single mailbox. I'm still a little
> fuzzy on qmail's "user-extensions", though. Do they (always? usually?)
> correspond to a single maildrop?
In qmail, mail by default is delivered into ~/Mailbox. If you have a .qmail
file, the contents of that file determine how the mail gets delivered.
If mail is sent to user-ext, qmail looks in .qmail-ext to determine how the
mail gets delivered. if .qmail-ext doesn't exist, it looks in .qmail-default.
What I do is to call rcvstore in my .qmail* filesto deliver directly into an
mh folder.
I can imagine that if inc could read from ~/Mailbox-ext this might be useful,
in that I could write a .qmail-default script that would automatically drop mail
into those files and minimize the number of .qmail files that I'd need.
I'd have to think about this some before I know if I'd use it. Maybe some
other qmail user has a stronger opinion.
As it is, I wouldn't even notice either way since I rcvstore all my incoming
mail anway.
> If so, I should probably reimplement $USERNAME_EXTENSION to only get tacked
> onto the account name in the "From:" line that post generates.
>
> qmail users, please let me know what you think.
Could it be conditional?
Chris
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