On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Tom Walsh wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am not sure why I am beating myself up trying to get the
> dot-forwarding to work, I do have fastforward working on the old server. I
> had tried to install majordomo and got nothing but problems, so .... I
> found a HOWTO that took me through the steps of installing majordomo under
> Qmail, but it used the dot-forward method of relaying.
>
> My problem is this:
>
> I am hosting nine virtual domains on one box using apache. I want to relay
> mail that is sent to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
> there are a total of 8 email accounts in the kfctristate domain: 'office',
> 'hamlin', 'newton', etc... Reading the FAQs and docs for Qmail leave me
> totally in the dark on how to do this, all mail sent to
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' bounces with the error of 'Sorry, no mailbox
> here by that name (#5.1.1)'.
>
> So, I installed the dot-forward package, replaced /var/qmail/rc with
> /var/qmail/boot/home+df. Then edited /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains to
> place a line in it as
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-kfctristate-ted_silver'. Then created
> '~alias/.qmail-kfctristate-ted_silver' with the contents of
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
>
> The domain, kfctristate.com, is listed in the /var/qmail/control directory
> in the locals, plusdomain, and rcpthosts files.
If you are trying to achieve virtual domain hosting for mail (which is
what you want), you should NOT have the domain in the _locals_-file, not
in the plusdomain either. It should only be placed in virtualdomains and
rcpthosts.
Do like this:
1. Place this line into virtualdomains:
kfctristate.com:alias-kfctristate
and
kfctristate.com
into rcpthosts.
This now means that your host will accept mail for the domain
"kfctristate.com" and deliver it to the files with this pattern
"~alias/.qmail-kfctristate-*"
2. Create the Ted Silver forward by creating a file called
".qmail-kfctristate-ted_silver" into the ~alias directory. And put the
text "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" on a single line in that file (no quotation
marks).
3. Restart qmail.
4. For creating more "mail accounts" in the domain, add more
.qmail-kfctristate- files.
5. If you want to handle all mail to the domain, create the file
".qmail-kfctristate-default".
6. For larger domain mail handling, consider to create a mail handling
user for each domain. e.g. create user called "bigdomain" and then place
"bigdomain.com:bigdomain" into virtualdomains. Then handle the default
mail by creating ~bigdomain/.qmail-default and John Smith:s mail by
creating ~bigdomain/.qmail-john_smith.
I further recommend you to look into Dave Sill's "Life with qmail" which
is a good source of knowledge when the FAQ put you in the dark.
[http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html]
/magnus
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