On Thursday 03 March 2005 06:43 pm, Tom Collins wrote: > On Mar 3, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Dave Goodrich wrote: > > I have several scripts that output data from my mail servers and I > > just add a .qmail-? file to /var/qmail/alias. > > I had an odd situation where this wasn't working for the output of some > cron jobs. > > Instead of a .qmail-fred in ~alias, I had to put the forwarding address > in ~fred/.qmail.
that's actually not odd behavior. If there's a fred system user, then mail to
fred will be delivered to him. If there is not, then it will be delivered to
~alias/.qmail-fred
of course, this is all overridden if there is a fred user in
the /var/qmail/users/cdb somehow ;)
-Jeremy
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