Chris Green wrote:
>
> However I now want to get mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried looking at the qmail
> documentation and it just confused me I'm afraid. Should I be using
> the /var/qmail/users/assign file describe in qmail-users (but I don't
> have one at the moment). Should I be using the mechanisms described
> in dot-qmail? *What* should I be using for a simple alias mechanism?
man qmail-users:
The file /var/qmail/users/assign assigns addresses to users. For
example,
=joe.shmoe:joe:503:78:/home/joe:::
says that mail for joe.shmoe should be delivered to user joe,
with uid 503 and gid 78, as specified
by /home/joe/.qmail.
So, in your example, you would use:
=maxine.green:maxine:xxx:yyy:/home/maxine:::
.
Where xxx is Maxine's user ID and yyy is her group ID. Don't forget the
"." on the last line. Also, don't forget to re-build the cdb with
qmail-newu.
> I have created a file .qmail-maxine.green in /var/qmail/alias with
> just 'maxine' in it but that doesn't seem to work. It also seems a
> rather clumsy mechanism if I wanted to create a lot of aliases.
man dot-qmail:
WARNING: For security, qmail-local replaces any dots in ext with
colons before checking .qmail-ext.
For convenience, qmail-local converts any uppercase letters in
ext to lowercase.
Try using .qmail-maxine:green instead.
> What I would really like to do is arrange that all mail for (regex)
> '.*maxine.*@isbd.demon.co.uk' would go to maxine, is there a simple
> way to do this?
I don't know.
R.
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