On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:14:54PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I'm not 100% sure I understand the difference in intended usage between
> setting up a ~/alias/.qmail-whatever file and setting up a virtual user in
> /var/qmail/users/assign. As far as I can tell, the former uses forwarding,
> whereas the latter is acting like a true alias.
The difference becomes evident if you are using virtualdomains.
If you have
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an they are not both the same you cannot handle deliveries for "joe"
via the same ~alias/.qmail-joe
Usually you would have different users with different $HOMEs that
control each of those domains. But with a few thousand virtualdomains
it is no fun (and pretty useless) to create thousands of "real" users
on your system. Thats what the users/assign is for. It can hold all the
users that are defined in control/virtualdomains, uses (if you want) only
one real UID and allows to define different $HOMEs (aka control
directories) for each domain.
\Maex
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