On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Tony D'Andrade wrote:

I've just been configuring a central qmail host myself, so I feel inspired
to help a bit ... This is my suggestion:

> 
> Hi.  I am trying to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] to alias to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 'fred' is a real account on our system.

su -
echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] >/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-info

And you're all done.

> In:
>       /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts
> I have:
>       mydomain.com

dont care, it's used by the mail receiver qmail-smtpd to allow only
mydomain.com as destination domain for mail incoming through SMTP.

> In:
>       /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
> I have:
>       mydomain.com:fred

take this out, or skip the echo command above. Doesn't work anyway if
mydomain.com is already local.

> In ~fred I have:
>       .qmail-info

This redirects [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is not what you want. take it
out.

> This contains:
>       &[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> None of this works.  When I take mydomain.com:fred out of virtualdomains
> then I can mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he receives mail.  Can anyone tell
> me what I am missing ? 
> 
> thanks in advance !! 
> 
> -td

Another way is to give fred controll over the info@ and info-*@ email
addresses, see man qmail-users.

Jelle.

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