I for one really like that feature. All the accounts on my system are based
upon a system UID/GID. Within that users home dir is the domains dir which
has a list of all their domains. Since all their domains are symlinked
there, it's a handy dir to glob for that info.
I for one prefer it that way.
Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Dameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 1:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Symbolic links with aliasing of domains.
>
>
>
> I am still curious as to why the authors of Qmailadmin and Vpopmail
use
> symbolic links in the domains directory to add domain aliases. Doesn't the
> virtualdomains file tell qmail where the mail should go? Example being I
> have checkoutisle.net and checkoutisle.com which are the same. The
> virtualdomains file should be able to just do the following:
>
> checkoutisle.net:checkoutisle.com
>
> meaning that checkoutisle.net is also the same as
> checkoutisle.com. Every
> domain I add has a symbolic link because we also add
> mail.<domainname> to
> each virtual. With over 200 domains this get's quite ugly.
> There must be a
> better way to do this.
>
> ---
> Brad Dameron
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Network Account Executive 877-663-4349
> TSCNet Online Services
www.tscnet.com
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