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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