On Wednesday, November 21, 2001, at 11:09 AM, Ken Jones wrote: > On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 10:50, Dean Henrichsmeyer wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is there a web archive of this mailing list anywhere? Secondly, I >> recently upgraded vpopmail 5.0, I was running a pre version before >> that. >> At any rate, aliases don't seem to be working. I create a pop account, >> forward that to a different email address, and that works. But then >> when >> I add an alias to the pop account that's forwarded, that does not. Any >> thoughts? If this has been mentioned before, I apologize, but I can't >> find a list archive. > > Sounds complicated. > > Aliases deliver directly to Maildirs, do not pass go, do not > collect 200 dollars, do not check for forwards, other aliases, > anything else. > > qmail-local is handling the aliases, so it just pops it > right into the usrs Maildir. > > I bet if you create a forward instead of an alias, then > it will behave the way you want.
Hey Ken.. how come aliases don't deliver to the home directory, and then look for a .qmail file? After that, then deliver to ./Maildir/ ? -Bill
