Aaron Nabil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>My first question: Unless I'm misreading the FM, ~alias/.qmail-default
>(where fastforward gets invoked) is only used AFTER local lookup in
>the system /etc/passwd fails.
Correct, with the usual fastforward installation.
>Sendmail tests for an alias first,
>so you can overide delivery to a local user by having an entry
>pointing somewhere else. Would I be correct in saying the only
>way I could get an /etc/aliases lookup with fastforward for an
>existing local user is to somehow disable their account, like by
>chaning the ownership of their home directory? Is there any other
>way around this?
You could use qmail-users (which preempts actual users), and run
fastforward via a specified .qmail file. See:
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#qmail-users
>One common entry we have in our /etc/aliases is something like...
>
>localuser: localuser,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>so that a local user gets a copy of all of their email at work as
>well as on our machine. Is there some way to make this work in
>fastforward? It would appear that since localuser is local and
>has a deliverable home directory, it won't.
Unless you preempt the local user delivery using qmail-users.
>Another question is about file delivery. We have a few entries
>like this...
>
>sales: salespersona, salespersonb, /var/spool/sales-archive
>
>since fastforward support program delivery, is there anything
>obvious we could use (say, like binmail or procmail) to deliver
>to that would keep a copy (mailbox styles, and provide some
>locking to prevent multiple instances from stomping on each other)?
How about a .qmail file? E.g., in ~alias/.qmail-sales-archive:
./sales-archive
Then your alias becomes:
sales: salespersona, salespersonb, sales-archive
>And the final question seems to have been asked many times on the
>mailing list, but I haven't seen a concise answer. Some of our
>usernames (and aliases) have dashes (hypens) in them. They seem
>to work correctly in the password file (longest match) but not
>/etc/aliases.
How do they not work in /etc/aliases?
>Can this be fixed by changing conf-break, to, say
>a ":"?
Probably...depending on what's "broken".
>What else will this effect?
User extension addresses will become "user:extension-address" rather
than "user-extension-address". Note: only the first "-" changes when
conf-break is changed.
-Dave
