On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 11:11, Bill Shupp wrote: > 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/ ?
Because qmail-local is doing the delivery and it doesn't know about vpopmail stuff. It would need a qmail-local patched for vpopmail stuff, which wouldn't be a bad idea :)
