..On  Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:16 PM, Tom Collins wrote:
> Many people (myself included) thought it would just accept the mail and
> do whatever you requested as the last parameter (bounce-no-mailbox,
> deleted, directory for delivery, etc.).

same here.

..and continued:
> qmail-local looks for .qmail-fred in the domain's directory.  Since
> .qmail-fred doesn't exist, qmail-local delivers the message to
> .qmail-default which contains vdelivermail.

I believe I understand.  In our conversation, we confused
~vpopmail/domains/example.com/username/.qmail with
~vpopmail/domains/example.com/.qmail-user, right ?  Is the problem you are
describing only username/.qmail instantiated ?

There doesnt appear to be any [delivery (1)] problems with my installation
of vpopmail, and I have several places where I have vdelivermail in
.qmail-default and in .qmail-user files -- but, unless qmailadmin put them
there, i have no vdelivermail statements inside any username/.qmail

> vstoremail would take care of file locking/naming/etc. and exit with
> the proper error code.

well, what does the '' do in "|/home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail ''
/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/user ?
can we put arguments there?  something like 'blinddeliver' ?  Or, is it
worth asking vdelivermail "from what program were you called?" so that It
could choose to look up the environment information -- or just blind
deliver?

Seems like a waste to have a binary to mostly do what vdelivermail does...
although several small pieces is the unix way..

otherwise, I like the idea; I would help with the effort, except that I keep
using the excuse that I dont know C :(
keeping it all together with vpopmail would be good.  I realize we could use
maildrop, but I would have no other use
for maildrop; introducing it as a dependency may be less than desirable.




[1]
 * every now and then a random customer calls complaining that he got a
Quota warning message, when his mailbox is virtually empty (0% of 20mB)
(although I use the same set of mail servers, and I never have gotten an
incorrect warning (i am using maildir++ patch from vpopmail))
 * piping stuff to vdelivermail on solaris 2.8 or 2.9 causes core dumps.


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