Thomas Booms EDV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 23 September 1999 at 13:40:47
+0200
> David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> > What *user* at www.1areisen.de was the test email addressed to?
>
> yildiz.
>
> > Let's
> > say it's user fred (that is, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>); then the local
> > delivery that will result is to yildiz-fred.
>
> I don't understand this. Why yildiz-fred? I thought it's called .qmail-yildiz or so.
There's an extra level because it's a virtual domain. The entry
www.1areisen.de:yildiz
in virtualdomains says that email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should
be delivered locally to yildiz-somebody, which means it will be
controlled by the file ~yildiz/.qmail-somebody. yildiz is the
controlling user for the virtual domain www.1areisen.de.
So, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is delivered locally to
yildiz-yildiz, which means it's controlled by the file
~yildiz/.qmail-yildiz.
(I'm writing the filenames in a format bash and I think csh understand
-- when I say "~yildiz", I mean the home directory for user yildiz.
Sorry if this is already clear to you; I'm never sure what level of
"obviousness" will be offensive vs. what level will help make things
clear.)
> My brain works... :))
And a darned good thing, too.
> That means if I send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] then I have to make an
> .qmail-buchung, right? But this exists since the time I tried to
> mail to this address. Do I have to make an .qmail-yildiz-buchung
> file? I think so because a few lines earlier you write something
> with fred...
First thing I see is that there is no virtual domain for 1aseisen.de
in your list of virtual domains. Did you just abbreviate the address
for your example? There's a virtual www.1areisen.de, but no virtual
1areisen.de on the list you posted. (Again, this mistake wouldn't
cause the error you reported, I don't think.)
So, assuming you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED], that would be
controlled by ~yildiz/.qmail-buchung. You say it exists -- does it
exist in the home directory of user yildiz?
(And I'm skipping mention of the .qmail-default possibility, to keep
the discussion simpler.)
> > If user yildiz doesn't
> > have either a .qmail-fred or a .qmail-default file in his home
> > directory, then the delivery will fail.
>
> The following files qmail-specific are in the home from yildiz:
> .qmail
> .qmail-buchung
> .qmail-default (created a few minutes before)
With this setup, mail to yildiz on the *native* domain (not any of the
virtuals) will be hanled by .qmail, and mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] will be handled by .qmail-buchung, and mail to
anybody else in www.1areisen.de will be handled by .qmail-default.
And make sure, if you want mailbox delivery, that the delivery
instructions in the .qmail files do not end in a slash; the slash
means it's a path to a mailDIR.
--
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