[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>Fetchmail passes mail over as simon.hampton@localhost and I can teach
>users/assign to tackle simon.hampton and deliver it linux user sim, but why
>cannot I set up a .qmail file in ~alias to do this?
For security reasons, qmail replaces "."'s with ":"'s in .qmail
filenames. Try ~alias/.qmail-sim:hamp.
>What is the aim of having these two mechanisms for dealing with
>addresses that are direct user names on my linux box?
Flexibility. They each do things the other can't do.
-Dave
