>From "man dot-qmail":

WARNING: For security, qmail-local replaces any dots in ext with colons
before checking .qmail-ext.  For convenience, qmail-local converts any
uppercase letters in ext to lowercase.

So:

.qmail-foo:bar will work as you intend.

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Albert Hopkins wrote:

> 
> I'm new to qmail, but I haven't found any documentation as to why, when
> setting up aliases, .qmail-foo works but .qmail-foo.bar (with a ".") gives
> me a user-unknown error.
> 
> 
> --
> Albert Hopkins
> Sr. Systems Specialist
> Dynacare, Inc
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 

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