the users .qmail file is only read if the email is delivered with the vdelivermail program, which is only called by .qmail-default. If qmail-local sees a .qmail-"username" file it will ignore the .qmail-default file and hence ignore vdelivermail and hence ignore the .qmail file in the users Maildir.
There might be a qmail-local patch that helps it understand more vpopmail things. Ken Jones On Thursday 20 February 2003 16:15, thorsten wrote: > hi ken, thanks for your replay... > > but that's not my problem - when setting up a vacation message with > qmailadmin it creates a ".qmail" in the users maildir. but THIS FILE seems > to be ignored! > > i will double check that this weekend but i am almost 100% sure about that. > like i said i hacked my qmailadmin to setup forwards instead of aliasses so > i can not check it on my production-servers. > > bye and thanks again > > thorsten > > Ken Jones writes: > > The dot qmail file in the users Maildir needs to be named ".qmail" > > Not ".qmail-username". > > > > Ken Jones > > inter7.co > > > > On Friday 14 February 2003 06:13, Thorsten Voss wrote: > >> hi list... > >> > >> i'm using qmailadmin on all our servers for almost one year now. > >> the main problem we had with it is the way local "aliases" are handled. > >> let's see following scenario: > >> > >> we have a mailbox and create an alias for that mailbox. > >> now the user owning the mailbox makes a forwarder or a vacation message. > >> now a email is sent to our alias... and it is delivered directly into > >> out mailbox - the .qmail-file in the mailbox directory IS IGNORED!!!!! > >> > >> SAME IS FOR CATCH-ALLS!!! and this is a serious problem!!! > >> > >> i've hacked the way qmailadmin creates aliases so it makes a forwarder > >> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. don't know if there is any better way. > >> > >> what do others think about that ?! is it a bug or a feature?! > >> > >> would it be better to change qmailadmin's way it creates aliases or to > >> change the vdeliver-program to recognise the .qmail-file? > >> > >> bye > >> thorsten voss > > > > -- > > - Ken Jones -- - Ken Jones
