On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:54:46PM +0100, Piotr Wanat wrote:
> Magnus Bodin wrote:
>
> > Is the mail-address really handled by fastforward?
> > I.e. does unknown addresses expand to the .qmail-file containing the call to
> > fastforward?
> >
> > Quick sanity check:
> >
> > Does ~alias/.qmail-default contain the following line:
> >
> > | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb
> >
>
> Yes. As I said all _other_ aliases work fine with fastforward, only the
> ones containing string "user-" or "-user" fail (eg. peter-testalias or
> alias-mike, where peter and mike are real usernames). Might be
> fastforward or qmail bug?
It's neither--things are working as designed and documented. From
/var/qmail/doc/PIC.local2ext:
qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox
| Look at mailbox name, fred-sos.
| Is fred-sos listed in qmail-users? No.
| Is there a fred-sos account? No.
| Is there a fred account? Yes.
| Is fred's uid nonzero? Yes.
| Is ~fred visible to the qmailp user? Yes.
| Is ~fred owned by fred? Yes.
| Give control of the message to fred.
| Run qmail-local.
V
qmail-local fred ~fred fred-sos - sos heaven.af.mil [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./Mailbox
Does ~fred/.qmail-sos exist? Yes: "./Extramail".
Write message to ./Extramail in mbox format.
So user-whatever will be controlled by user. alias (and thus fastforward)
doesn't get a chance to handle it if user doesn't choose to. You'll need to use
qmail-users if you'd like fastforward to handle user-whatever when user exists.
Chris
