On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 05:36:16PM -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> About qmail-users (correct me if I'm wrong): the only difference I see
> between it and the forwarding feature in .qmail is the former is capable
> to assign file names which are independent of the alias name (i.e.
> .qmail-blah could be capable of defining rules for an address other than
> user-blah).
I frequently use the following /var/qmail/users/assign file:
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+:alias:100:101:/var/qmail/alias:-::
.
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Thus, ALL mail on that system will be controlled via instructions
in /var/qmail/alias/
The .qmail-default file therin contains
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|forward "$LOCAL"@space.net
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I use this mainly on our servers, so that (local) mail to user@localhost
gets sent to our central "mailhub" without forcing each user to have
a .qmail file in his/her $HOME.
You can create .qmail-firstuser, .qmail-seconduser, .qmail-NTHuser
to handle email for firstuser, seconduser, ...
Checking for $HOME/.qmail is disabled for all users, because of the
wildcard match for "any" in /var/qmail/users/assign.
With the above create a .qmail-user file for every user. If there
is no .qmail-user-default then addresses like .qmail-user-blah
won't work (will bounce).
Additionally create a .qmail-default file which handles delivery
for .qmail-user-blah or users without a .qmail-user file (i.e.
forward them to postmaster, drop them to /dev/null, bounce them with
an error message, just as you like).
\Maex
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