[vchkpw] Forwarding....

[Bill Sappington]

Ok so after wading through documentation that didn;t document so very damn 
well, and the snide remarks from a few people on this list and suffering 
through the whole "It was hard to write so it should be hard to use 
attitude" this works for forwarding.

The following assumes a standard Qmail install on Linux, a standard install 
of Vpopmail.

Standard install will create: /home/vpopmail/domains

Within the domains directory a sub-driectory for each domain you put onto 
the system is created it:

New Domain = MyNewDomain.Com

So you will have the following directory structure:

/home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com

for the obligitory postmaster you will have:

/home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com/postmaster

within the above you will have

/home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com/postmaster/MailDir

within Maildir you will have three directories:  new, cur & tmp

*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= THE DEFAULT FORWARD *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*

Create a user for the domain MyNewDomain.com, ie: 'info' and you will have:

/home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com/info/MailDir

within Maildir you will have three directories:  new, cur & tmp

within the directory: /home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com execute the 
"ls -all" command
and you will see the file '.qmail-default'.  This file handles all e-mail 
comming to this domain that has no valid destination.  The contents of this 
file are:

| /home/vpopmain/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce

To make all e-mail without a valid destination in MyNewDomain.com go to a 
specific user, replace the word 'bounce' with the fully qualified address 
of the person you want it to go to.  This can be ANYONE!  Inside or outside 
your domain.

So suppose you want all e-mail with no valid destination at MyNewDomain.com 
to go to your mailbox on hotmail.com change the line to look like this:

| /home/vpopmain/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED]

This is the Catch All!

*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= THE INDIVIDUAL FORWARD 
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=

To forward for a specific user create a file in the DOMAIN directory:

/home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com

name it .qmail-[user name of the person in this domain for which you would 
like to do forwarding]

So in the above example, I have a domain called 'MyNewDomain.com' and a 
user named 'info'.  If I want to forward ALL e-mail for the user 'info' to 
my hotmail address I would use a text editor such as pico since its very 
simple to use and execute the following command:

pico /home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com/.qmail-info

Then add the following to the file:

&[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Save the file and I have just created the forwarding rule for the 
individual user.

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