Re: help - qmail rejecting mail. no mailbox here by that name.
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:13:11PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the users have accounts on this qmail server, but the account names are different than their email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. Job Bob's userid on the unix machine is "bobj" /home/bobj Under the alias directory I created a .qmail-joe-bob (also tried .qmail-joe.bob) .. the contents of this alias file is "bobj". Should be ~alias/.qmail-joe:bob. See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#dots-in-extensions Do other special characters besides periods also need to be substituted for? With colons, or something else? -- David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 59438240 [e-mail first for access] --- There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a "hottest part" implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible. -- Richard Davisson [from fortune]
Re: update Re: help - qmail rejecting mail. no mailbox here by that name
J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I changed the alias to: .qmail-joe:bob with the contents: bobj I restarted all qmail daemons.. and unfortunatly I still get the "no mailbox here by that name". Any other sugguestions? No, that ought to work--assuming bobj is a valid mail user. For example: root@sws5# cd ~alias root@sws5# echo ./joebob .qmail-joe:bob root@sws5# echo To: joe.bob |qmail-inject root@sws5# cat joebob From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 04 12:29:17 2000 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 525673 invoked by uid 0); 4 Aug 2000 12:29:17 - Date: 4 Aug 2000 12:29:17 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Dave
Re: help - qmail rejecting mail. no mailbox here by that name.
J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the users have accounts on this qmail server, but the account names are different than their email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. Job Bob's userid on the unix machine is "bobj" /home/bobj Under the alias directory I created a .qmail-joe-bob (also tried .qmail-joe.bob) .. the contents of this alias file is "bobj". Should be ~alias/.qmail-joe:bob. See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#dots-in-extensions -Dave
