On Wed, 19 May 1999, Stephen Farrugia wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am a new user of Qmail, well setting up MTAs really.
>
> I have a problem where I have set up fastforward-0.51 with qmail-1.03.
> The situation involves setting up an alias for a user with the name
> of the form firstname.lastname. It seems that fastforward is unable to
> alias names of the form firstname.lastname.
>
> As well, I am trying to forward mail to Cyrus-1.5.19...
>
> My setup configuration is as follows.
>
> defaultdelivery/rc
> /usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver $USER
>
>
> alias/.qmail.default
> | /var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb
This is your problem. By the time ~alias/.qmail-default gets the address
the "." has been converted to a ":" but you can't use a ":" in
/etc/aliases. (I tried.) Replace this with:
~alias/.qmail-default:
| env DEFAULT=`echo $DEFAULT | tr ":" "."` /var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d
|/etc/aliases.cdb
(all on one line)
This works perfectly for me.
>
>
> /etc/aliases
> firstname.lastname: foobar
> fudge: foobar
>
>
> The qmail log file comes up with...
> delivery 7: deferral: firstname.lastname:_Mailbox_does_not_exist_
> which seems to be a message from the cyrus delivery program.
>
> Why hasn't the Cyrus delivery program been told to deliver to 'foobar'
> and not firstname.lastname. Is it a problem with fastforward?
>
> I have read, searched and played with this problem but am unable to
> resolve it.
>
> Any advice is most welcome.
>
> Stephen farrugia
>
>
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