Chris Naden writes:
>
> >First, let them know that their new username has no spaces in it, and
> >give them such an account. In ~alias, create a '.qmail-user name'
> >which has '&username' in it.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, more clueful people
> out there, but will not qmail insert a _ in place
> of the whitespace and then get confused? that's
> what it did to me, though admitedly not in
> the username section.
It logs them with an _, but the .qmail file matches the recipient
except that dots are changed into colons.
> the other question which comes to mind is can you
> create file names with a space in (ie. can you actually
> create a file called .qmail-alias-user name?) You can't under
> linux, and the only system I can think of where you *can*
> is NT, which is a mistake at the best of times...
Worked for me.
cho '&nelson' >~alias/.qmail-'foo bar'
[root@desk nelson]# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 desk.crynwr.com ESMTP
mail <>
250 ok
rcpt <foo bar>
250 ok
data
354 go ahead
From: me
To: you
.
250 ok 918487994 qp 4
quit
221 desk.crynwr.com
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@desk nelson]#
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