Ken Jones wrote:
>
> Einar Bordewich wrote:
> >
> > Since my illustrations appeard trunkated, I'm re-sending this mail,
> > hopefully it will be a little bit easier to read this time ;-)
> >
> > ----------Forwarded message ----------
> > From: "Einar Bordewich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: vaddaliasdomain
> > Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 00:10:40 +0200
> >
> > Why is vaddaliasdomain making a link in ~vpopmail/domains/newdomain to
> > ~vpopmail/domains/oldomain, and then in virtualdomains adding the newdomain
> > to newdomain user. In /var/qmail/users/assign the newdomain is linked to
> > itself and then the home catalog is ~vpopmail/domains/newdomain?
> >
> > Whould it not be better to drop the symlink in ~vpopmail/domains, and in
> > virtualdomains/assign rather set the newdomain to the old domain alias
> > user?
> >
> > Current setup:
> >
> > virtualdomains:
> > test.org:test.org
> > test.com:test.com
> >
> > assign:
> > +test.org-:test.org:1009:104:/home/vpopmail/domains/test.org:-::
> > +test.com-:test.com:1009:104:/home/vpopmail/domains/test.com:-::
> > .
> >
> > New setup:
> >
> > virtualdomains:
> > test.org:test.org
> > test.com:test.org
> >
> > assign:
> > +test.org-:test.org:1009:104:/home/vpopmail/domains/test.org:-::
> > +test.com-:test.org:1009:104:/home/vpopmail/domains/test.org:-::
> > .
> >
> > With many domains and several alias domains, the symlinks is boring.
> > Special
> > since there are no user with the aliasdomain in their username.
> >
> > Why am I conserned by this trivial issue?
> > Since I do a:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > ls -1 ~vpopmail/domains/ | \
> > grep ".no\|.com\|.org\|.net" \
> > > /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/logindomainlist
> >
> > from time to time ;-) and since I think the "old" solution breaks qmails
> > intention regarding aliasdomains and use of the assign file.
>
> Good point. I'll try it out.
>
> Ken Jones
The answer to your question is easy. A new vpopmail api function would
need to be added to support this. Which seems like a reasonable change.
But that's why it wasn't done before. Instead we used an old function
and added the symbolic link.
Ken
