Patrick Berry wrote:
> On 11/9/99 at 3:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Howard) had the thought:
>
> > Please don't suggest lots of userids and/or lots of .qmail files. I'm
> > dead set on making this easy to administer, so those are not options.
> > That's why I'm running things through a program that figures it out.
>
> I could be way off base here, but it sounds like your dead set on
> reinventing the wheel. If you have to have a directory for the userid to
> hold the Maildir, what is the problem with having a .qmail file to tell
> qmail to deliver to that Maildir?
There will be hundreds of virtual domains and hundreds of userids in each.
No, make that thousands. Maybe more. What's more, the user names will
be created on the fly, so creating .qmail files in advance for every user
name just isn't possible.
I don't want to add the extra I/O overhead of creating a .qmail file for
each user. I'm trying to make this lean and mean. What I want to do is
divert the .qmail lookup for these virtuals (the ones in virtualdomains
naming this one single base user that handles this whole mess) so that
for each user@domain to be delivered there is _not_ a .qmail file there.
If I could code the master .qmail file like:
# note the single quotes here:
echo './Virtuals/${HOST}/${USER}/' > .qmail
and qmail-local would apply environment substitution, that would do the job.
But that doesn't work. So I'm trying:
echo '|./bin/delivery-to' > .qmail
where the program in bin/delivery-to examines the environment variables
and determines the directory to deliver to (all are owned by the one user
that all this is running under). The next step is to deliver the mail
there (which I'm wanting to avoid re-inventing, since something in qmail
can obviously do it).
There would be a corresponding logic for vchkpw authentication and finding
the directory under the pop3 server, plus a web based access facility to
be developed, too (I'll be doing this in PHP).
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