On 12/15/2006 1:05 PM, John Simpson wrote:
i think the ones created within a mailbox's directory should be called
".vpopmail-*", while the ones in the domain's directory (which ARE
processed by qmail-local) should be left the way they are.
I couldn't agree more.
in general i think the idea of using .qmail-{user} files at the domain
level is better, simply because it makes for one less process involved
in getting the message to the maildir. basically, if qmail-local CAN do
the delivery properly, we should allow it to do so. i think the
"vdelivermail" program should only be used to handle cases where
qmail-local can't work (i.e. mailbox or alias information stored in a
database.)
absolutely. On high volume mail servers, like the set I run, forking
vdelivermail for no reason will certainly impact performance. better to
simply let qmail-local run with the ball.
i think a safer way to do it would be to have a script which finds and
renames the files as needed, and tell the users to only run the script
while qmail-send is stopped. if they're upgrading the vpopmail binaries
anyway, they will probably be in some kind of maintenance window to
start with, and stopping qmail-send won't be a major deal.
I don't know why my post on wednesday got lost, but I wrote:
> On 12/13/2006 12:36 AM, Rick Widmer wrote:
>> One of the biggest complaints against vpopmail heard on the qmail
>> mailing list is the fact that it uses files kind of like .qmail
>> files, that are not interpreted by qmail-local, yet it names them
>> .qmail*. Drew-vpopmail has submitted a patch to vdelivermail that
>> follows the .qmail-ext file resolution process just like qmail-local
>> except that at each level it looks for both a .qmail* and .vpopmail*
>> file.
[...]
>> What do you think?
>
> Why keep username/.qmail files at all?
>
> I whipped up code many moons ago (2005.12.16) to convert
> username/.qmail files to username/.vpopmail files --
> http://jeremy.kister.net/code/perl/change-vpopmail-files.pl
>
> Then changing qmailadmin and vpopmail would be trivial.
Maybe there needs to be a ./configure option to disable the new file
name.
something like "--old-dot-qmail-files" maybe? sounds good to me.
Great idea!
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Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net./
