Thanks for your help Timothy.
You provided the next crucial step in the total solution.
"Timothy L. Mayo" wrote:
> 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.
>
It is also necessary to have an entry in users/assign of the following nature:
+.+:alias:80:80://var/qmail/alias:::
so that all users of with names firstname.lastname were processed by
~alias/.qmail-default
Stephen
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