Largo is my girlfriend and my Bitch(tm) ;) and the reason why i do this reply is cause you didn't reply to the mailinglist, you replyed directly to me ;)
so ppl in the list, read below.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mustafa Hashmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Raboo Treed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] alias support via vpopmail in PHP > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 02:07:10 +0200 > "Raboo Treed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > well as my friend largo nicely put it > > > > 01:13 < Iargo> --enable-valias=y > > > > thanks, This largo guys sounds very clever ;) > > P.S: though I have valias support enabled and it seems to be working fine (can use >command line valias to add re-director (as well as test it), php refuses to add >support for it. Have re-built from clean tree sources for vpopmail as well as php, no >luck. > > Though not a vpopmail problem, if anyone has any idea why this may be, I'd >appreciate it some guidance. > > -mustafa. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mustafa Hashmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 5:40 PM > > Subject: [vchkpw] alias support via vpopmail in PHP > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > We have moved to qmail / vpopmail completely and it's working very well for our >needs. We run a control panel written (in-house) in php which used to take care of >adding / deleting users before we had moved to vpopmail. > > > > > > The new mail server however works in a jailed freebsd environment and does not >offer direct access to commands, and in our limited environment, we don't want to >offer qmailadmin to our clients. > > > > > > I decided a good way to link our control panel to the new mail server using >php's internal vpopmail functions would be via an xml gateway. One sends >authenticated internal posts (via ssl) to the this gateway -- the gateway is running >as vpopmail and carries out the requests. The response is sent back to our control >panel as an xml document. This solves many issues and offers great flexibility. I >finished implementing the code yesterday and it's all working well. > > > > > > Enough with the background, on with the problem. > > > > > > The valias function is not support by php as the functionality is left out of >vpopmail itself (please correct me if I am wrong), and I the way around this, as far >as I can figure out, is writing a .qmail-user file in the domains/domainname.com >directory with the | vdelivermail line for the new email address. > > > > > > As the (xml) server is running as vpopmail, this is hardly a problem to do -- >however, I was curious if this would be the most sound method. What do you guys >think? Am I overlooking something very obvious or is writing a file manually a good >solution? > > > > > > I appreciate your comments. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Mustafa. > > > -- > > > "If I knew I'd live this long, I'd take better care of myself." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > "If I knew I'd live this long, I'd take better care of myself." >
