on 3/27/06 11:45 AM, Tom Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Kurt Bigler wrote:
>> I'm sure. I triple checked. I have a text file of the shell session.
>> I've
>> attached a contiguous unedited excerpt from the shell session.
>
> I'm not familiar with how versions of vpopmail prior to the 5.4 series
> handled alias domains, but the directory structure in the shell session
> you posted doesn't match the way alias domains are handled now.
>
> When you run vdeldomain, it looks in /var/qmail/users/assign to find
> the domain. If it's an alias (the first two columns don't match), it
> just deletes the domain from the /var/qmail/control/* and
> /var/qmail/users/assign files.
It looks like for my old alias domains, the first two columns do match, but
the pathname column doesn't:
+middendorfbreath.org-:middendorfbreath.org:89:89:/var/vpopmail/domains/midd
endorfbreath.com:-::
which is curious since there is no reference to the directory symlink.
> If the old way of handling alias domains was to create unique entries
> in users/assign and then use links to map the directories, I could see
> how vdeldomain could end up deleting the underlying directory. I'll
> make a note to look at vdeldomain and have it act differently if the
> domain directory is a link to another directory.
Yes, I created those alias domains long ago.
I don't think there was any utility to run to do a conversion of domain
aliases? I'm pretty sure I read the readme pretty carefully whenever I did
an upgrade. Did I miss something?
So what *should* I do now with all my old-style domain aliases? Do I have
to mess with the qmail config files by hand? I'm happy to just delete the
old domain aliases and recreate them the new way. Should I just:
delete the lines from /var/qmail/users/assign
remove the directory symlinks
or if there something else in the qmail configuration that I need to change
somewhere. I've really always depended on vpopmail to do these things so I
don't know my way around qmail.
Is there anyone who remembers enough about how things were done that many
years back?
Thanks.
-Kurt
