> on 6/14/01 3:10 PM, Lu Vo at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake:
>
> > But vdelivermail is for delivering mails to a virtual user.
> > What I am doing here is delivering mails to an external e-mail address.
> >
> > Once you change your mind and want to deliver mail back to a
> virtual user,
> > just click on the catchall for that user in the POP accounts
> window and the
> > line
> >
> > | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail ''
> >
> > will be added back to prepend whatever POP account you have selected.
> >
> > Lu.
>
> Maybe we're talking about 2 different situations. I'm trying to set it up
> so that only *unmatching* addresses go to the external
> "catch-all" address.
> Since there are some local users for that domain, then you need
> .qmail-default to have | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' in it, or
> qmail-local will never know about the domain's local users.
>
> I've been playing around with the catch-all code, and have a
> working version
> that creates the remote catch-all like:
>
> | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I'm going to try and move this into the user.c file, and make the
> "show_users" section allow you to set no default, define a local
> account, or
> define a remote account for catch-all mail. Since the catch-all code is
> already there, I think it would make more sense there than in the forwards
> section.
>
> The obvious benefit of not piping through vdelivermail first
> means that the
> postmaster mail will get forwarded too. But this can be done (manually,
> currently) by .qmail-postmaster. I may try to address that later.
>
> Has anyone (other than Lu) already worked on defining remote catch-all
> accounts via qmailadmin? I'd hate to duplicate efforts. Any thoughts on
> doing this are welcome as well.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Shupp
Hi Bill,
The catchall in this case is only dealing with unmatching e-mails.
e-mails that match other virtual POP users do *not* end up being handled by
the default rules anyway do they ?
I have tested this very thing a few times and find that it is working as
expected.
Lu.
