hi,
> I run "maildirmake /home/sebastian/Maildir" to
> create the maildirectory for the local user sebastian.
hope you did that as user sebastian, if not make a
"chown sebastian.<GroupOfSebastian> -R home/sebastian/Maildir"
(or equivalent of your OS).
the user has to be the owner of the Maildir.
> for user sebastian, must it be "touch
> /home/sebastian/.qmail-sebastian"?
echo ./Maildir/ >.qmail
would do it
> And what must I type in this file to save the
the filename is just .qmail (owner the user! only writeable for the user! e.g. 644)
> Mustn't I modify something
> in /var/qmail/alias or users, must I
nope. if sebastian is a plain system user you do not need to fiddle anywhere else...
suggestion for reading: Dan Sill's excellent Life with Qmail
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html
hope that helps
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian Wolfgarten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 9:43 PM
> To: qmail liste
> Subject: understand .qmail files
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I got some questions concerning .qmail files.
> I'm installing qmail for the very first time
> and now trying to get things done. So first
> I run "maildirmake /home/sebastian/Maildir" to
> create the maildirectory for the local user sebastian.
> Now I must create the .qmail file for this user
> and here's my question: How must I name this file
> when the user sebastian should get all emails
> for user sebastian, must it be "touch /home/sebastian/.qmail-sebastian"?
> And what must I type in this file to save the
> mail locally in the maildir? ?
>
> Thanks
> Sebastian
>
>
