Michael Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dave Sill wrote:
>
>> "Daniel Cukier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >I'm upgrading from sendmail to qmail and now I have a big problem.
>> >
>> >BEFORE instaling qmail:
>> >fetchmail get all mail from a pop3. All these mail are sent to postmaster
>> >and postmaster re-send the mail to the person which this mail belongs
>>
>> How did it do that? Sendmail doesn't work thay way "out of the box".
>
>Sure it does, at least in Red Hat 5.2.
Nope. Sendmail isn't redirecting postmaster mail; fetchmail is parsing
Received lines and redirecting the messages.
>> How can postmaster tell which user a message is intended for?
>
>I believe fetchmail just takes the userid off of the addresses when it gets
>mail via pop3. Then it tries to send the mail to the local user with that
>userid. I matched up my e-mail address userid to my local userid by throwing
>an entry into the mail alias file in /usr/lib.
If that's the case, you just need to set up aliases for the users
under qmail equivalent to the ones you set up under sendmail.
-Dave
