Alex Le Fevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In installing qmail, I'm told to set up
> ~alias/.postmaster, etc., etc. Only problem is, I
> don't quite understand the alias concept as it relates
> to mail. I understand the idea of an alias for a
> directory name...but mail? Is there some standard
> directory I'm pointing to with this alias, or some
> other standard concept behind it?
Simplified:
In qmail, alias is a system user account. qmail, when delivering mail to
a local user, will first check ~username for validity, .qmail file(s), etc.
If that fails, it will then check ~alias/.qmail-username(-default, etc).
Therefore ~alias/.qmail-root is a .qmail file (`man dot-qmail`) which
controls delivery of mail to "root@localdomain".
A dot mail file (read the man page referenced above) consists of comments,
blank lines, and delivery instructions. A delivery instruction can be
one of several things:
-instruction to deliver to a Maildir. Starts with . or / and ends with /.
./path/to/Maildir/
-instruction to deliver to an mbox file. Starts with . or / and does not
end with /.
./path/to/mbox
-instruction to deliver to a program. Starts with |; `man qmail-command` for
details.
|/path/to/my/script
-forwarding instructions. Either starts with &, or doesn't fit one of the
above.
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charles
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