Well... that's a little over the top for me mate :)
Like I said in a previous email... I was able to resolve my problem in
another simple way.

Shai

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Philip <phi...@ows.ch> wrote:
> Hello
> you ll notice that in the (if default setup) /var/qmail/users directory
> a file assign (text file)
> a binary file cdb (built from assign)
> and a lock file assign.lock
>
> When you add a new domain or a new domain alias
> that domain is added to the assign file and the cdb file is built
> The assign is a very important file, in the "old" days when the uid, gid of
> vpopmail wasnt fixed and specified to 89:89
> you  had to edit that assign file when you were migrating otherwise you d
> face big issues with permissions :)
>
> basically if you look at the file you can see :
> +domain_name-:domain_name:uid:gid:path_of_the_mail_boxes:-::
>
> +dom1.com-:dom1.com:89:89:/home/vpopmail/domains/dom1.com:-::  <- normal
> domain
> +dom2.com-:dom1.com:89:89:/home/vpopmail/domains/dom1.com:-::  <- domain
> alias of dom1
>
>
> I dont use that much that qmail-newu command but qmail-newmrh I use that
> almost every day to add domains to our front end smtp servers (scanners)
>
> If you are interested look at the vpopmail source package and vadddomain.c
> or vaddaliasdomain.c
> you ll understand what files are modified when you add or remove a domain
>
> and if you just want your smtp to accept mail for a specific domain but to
> deliver mail to another machine, that domain must be added to only one file
> but that's another subject
>
>
> Shai wrote:
>>
>> Hi Philip,
>>
>> Thanks for the tip... but I didn't understand it. Can you elaborate?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shai
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Philip <phi...@ows.ch> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello
>>> assign is an editable file (but be careful what you do with it)
>>> then the command qmail-newu builds a cdb binary file called cdb
>>>
>>>
>>> Eric Shubert wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not really clear about what you're trying to accomplish. There are 2
>>>> other places though (other than the sql database) where your domains are
>>>> defined. One is the /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains, and the other is
>>>> /var/qmail/users/assign. The later has a cdb file associated with it
>>>> that's
>>>> a little tricky to get generated IIRC. You might need to add/delete a
>>>> dummy
>>>> domain to get the assign.cdb file rebuilt.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Shai wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well... I know where it goes... it still goes locally to my account ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Shai
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Shai <sha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I did this.. and now I don't get any email... and I have no idea where
>>>>>> its going to either :(
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Shai
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Eric Shubert <e...@shubes.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In that case, I think you can simply remove the domain from the
>>>>>>> /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file. See
>>>>>>> http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/Rcpthosts
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd do that with qmail stopped to be on the safe side (I see a
>>>>>>> corresponding
>>>>>>> .lock file).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Shai wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Eric (Long time no talk!),
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But I don't want to delete the domain... I still have emails I want
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> have access to ...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Shai
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Eric Shubert <e...@shubes.net>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Shai wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I decided that I don't want to maintain my own mail server and I
>>>>>>>>>> want
>>>>>>>>>> to let another service handle this for me.
>>>>>>>>>> Notice, I have several domains, and this decision has been made
>>>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>>>> just one of them, not all.
>>>>>>>>>> I've setup everything but local emails (ie. emails that are being
>>>>>>>>>> sent
>>>>>>>>>> from the local cron or other tasks sending to the local server on
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> old mail server.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What exactly do I need to do, so that all the local email being
>>>>>>>>>> sent
>>>>>>>>>> to this domain, don't go to the old server but get forwarded to my
>>>>>>>>>> ISP
>>>>>>>>>> and then to my new host for my mail server?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>>>>>>> Shai
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Delete the domain from your toaster
>>>>>>>>> # /home/vpopmail/bin/vdeldomain yourdomain.com
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> -Eric 'shubes'
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> -Eric 'shubes'
>>>>>>>
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