>From "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 lower-case.
Based on this, your qmail file should be named:
~alias/.qmail-sim:hamp
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Simon wrote:
> My first post to this group - I hope this is not a question that has been
> asked before, but I could find it when I searched.
>
> I'm trying to get qmail to route incoming mails from my ISP, pulled down by
> fetchmail. Mail is sent either to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to my wife,
> both of which are aliases for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 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? What is the aim of having
> these two mechanisms for dealing with addresses that are direct user names on
> my linux box?
>
> Simon
>
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> http://home.tvd.be/ws35056
>
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