On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:03:07 +0000 (GMT), Drew Wells wrote:
> I have patched VpopMail 5.4.13 so that each user in a domain can have
> there E-Mail handled by there own set of .qmail files (in
> /var/vpopmail/domains/{domain}/{user}), this is a patch to
> 'int check_forward_deliver(char *dir)' in vdelivermail.c.
good idea
> Is this patch of any interest to anyone or is this meant to be done
> another way ?
since we're talking about revamping code, we should change the name of
the files.
It's hard for some people to understand what qmail-local does and what
vdelivermail does; calling files ".qmail" which are actually handled by
vdelivermail is misleading.
As suggested by Charles Cazabon (archived at
http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/qmail0510/86/1/1/1/1/1.html), we
should call these files .vpopmail and/or .vpopmail-user
this will clearly differentiate qmail-local and vdelivermail's
responsibilities and will natively point newbies in the right direction.
both vpopmail and qmailadmin could be updated trivially, and a couple of
lines of perl could upgrade everyone's vpopmail/domains directory tree.
I'd be happy to write the upgrade script.
whether or not we decide to change the name of the files, we'll have to
ask Antonio to update chkusr and checkuser before the release, or at
least note the possible incompatibility with existing installations.
--
Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net./
