Hi!
On my lab machine, users maintain their own mail-lists using ezmlm,
(including myself). Now, instead of having an address of the sort
sameer-iitb-*@, I would like it to have as iitb-*@ without having an
account for the iitb as user. I understand I can have the
~alias/.qmail-iitb-* files also but if that done for all users will
lead to lot of unmanageable(?) .qmail-* files in ~/alias.
I thought of using qmail-users and added the following line
+iitb-:sameer:501:100:/home/sameer/:-:sameer:
according to what is listed in man qmail-users(1) as
-----begin
A wildcard assignment is a line of the form
+loc:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:pre:
This assignment applies to any address beginning with loc, including
loc itself.
<snip>
...
+joe-:joe:507:100:/home/joe:-::
...
the address joe-direct is handled by the second line.
-----end
ran qmail-newu and then sent a mail to iitb@
but all I get is
Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
in the bounce.
Q1. Is the above procedure workable in my case? It doesnt seem so but
may be I am missing something.
Q1.1 What does the pre (see above) mean? ( I guessed pre-ext@ format )
Q2. What is the procedure if there is a way to do it without doing the
above two things (creating account for iitb or ~alias/.qmail-* files)
Thanks and regards,
Sameer
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Sameer Vijay - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Research Engineer)
Dept. of Chemical Engg, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076 INDIA.
Fax: +91-22-5796895 (dept), +91-22-5783480 (IITB)
