On 27-Jan-00 Scott Schappell wrote:
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> That also has to assume the MX entry is correct
> for his domain, that all mail goes to that machine.
> In my example: silvertree.org IN MX 10 arthur.silvertree.org.
>
> The FAQ I am referencing is:
> http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/incominghost.html#local
>
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I have read this FAQ but failed to understand it because I did
not know what they meant by DNS entry. Maybe I should explain
the situation a little better.
I am not the server administrator. I am just a Perl programmer
trying to make things work correctly for a program I wrote. The
server administrator told me the only way to get mail from
<anyone>@<sub>.domain was to add an entry in /var/qmail/control/locals
for each <sub>.domain. I did not believe him because the amount
of entries in that file could be over 3000 (eek) so I tested it
and my test email was bounced.
I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] domain was entered in
/var/qmail/control/locals but sub.domain was not. There was a line in
/etc/aliases.cdb for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be delivered to me@domain
and the email bounced. The log said that qmail was not trying to
deliver it locally.
The program I am writting will just need to set up forwards for
people that do not have an actual local email account just a
subdomain account.
I guess what my question should have been was where do I need to make
entries when someone signs up for an email forward account?
The forwards will be done with fastforward and I have already made the
script that writes them to /etc/aliases.cdb.
Sorry for the confusion
Scott
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