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Big Brother tells me that Anand Buddhdev said:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 04:11:18PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Now, mail stays local. Since I no longer have recipientmap, I
> > wonder what the solution is. One solution is to put qmail.org into
> > mail.chicago.qmail.org's virtualdomains file. Then I can create
> > aliases for all of the local users. The problem is that I must also
> > create aliases for EVERY qmail.org user, so that anyone not on the
> > local machine has their mail sent to the main server. This would be
> > a pain to administer, especially when there are dozens of local offices.
>
> recipientmap was a feature of qmail 1.01, and was withdrawn in qmail
> 1.02 and above. The functionality of recipientmap is now incorporated
> into virtualdomains. Read the qmail-send man page more carefully, and
> you'll find your solution. Basically you're on the right track, but
> you've missed something.
Not exactly. If you put something like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:example
into virtualdomains, it will convert the address to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and treat it as local. I would then have to create an alias file for each
user. This is considerably more complicated than just putting a line into
a recipientmap file.
The trick is that the application I need this for is a company with
dozens of offices all over the country. I want to have a central mail
server, and then a mail server in each office. By using recipientmap,
I can create a single file on the main server:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now, all mail from the outside world coming in for qmail.org gets
resent to the appropriate office's mail server. By maintaining this
one master list on the main server, updates are easy: Whenever a user
is added, removed, or even changes offices, all that is necessary is
that this recipientmap file gets copied to all mail servers. With an
exact copy of this file in chicago, for example, if charles sends email
to cheryl, it stays local. If charles sends email to allan, it gets
sent directly to the atlanta server, without having to go through the
main server.
This is considerably more complicated if I have to use virtualdomains
with aliases. I can create a file recipientmap as above, and then write
a script that converts its data to a virtualdomains file and a bunch of
aliases. However, this script has to account for removed users (that are
no longer in the file) by removing old entries and .qmail files.
Is there a patch anywhere where I can restore the recipientmap file?
It should only be less than a dozen lines, I would think, so perhaps I
could write one...
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Jack McKinney
The Lorentz Group http://www.lorentz.com
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