The man page for qmail-users says:
=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.
Does this mean that /home/joe/.qmail has to exist? What if it does
not exist; then mail gets delivered to /home/joe/Mail{box,dir} ?
The reason I am confused is that man qmail-local says that in
SYNOPSIS
qmail-local [ -nN ] user homedir local dash ext domain
sender defaultdelivery
homedir must be the user's homedir:
homedir is the user's home directory. It must be an abso-
lute directory name.
Now, in Josh Murray's post, we see
=gwooden-ladybug:gwooden:1008:100:/var/qmail/popboxes/g-rock-net/ladybug:::
=gwooden-josh:gwooden:1008:100:/var/qmail/popboxes/g-rock-net/josh:::
and it seems clear that here /var/qmail/popboxes/g-rock-net/josh is
not gwooden's homedir. If /var/qmail/popboxes/g-rock-net/josh does
not have to be gwooden's homedir, then what kind of ownership should
it have? Does it have to be owned by gwooden at all, or just be
(and the Maildir in it) writable by him?
Thx,
Mate
