Ok, if I understand the process, qmail allows me to use the
/var/qmail/users/assign file to define wildcard email address
processing. Basically, I can define a user and a directory
to use when processing emails whose addresses start with
certain characters. qmail looks into the specified directory
and tries to file a .qmail file. If there isn't a suitable one,
it creates something called Mailfile. That isn't what I want.
If it finds a file called .qmail-default, it executes the
instructions within and does exactly what I want.
I don't want to use .qmail-default, however. My problem is
that I want to use a more specific name for the .qmail file.
I can't deduce from the man pages what the qmail file should
be called.
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As per the man page for qmail-user, .qmail files ARE involved:
"A simple assignment is a line of the form
=local:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:ext:
Here local is an address; user, uid, and gid are the account
name, uid, and gid of the user in charge of local; and messages
to local will be controlled by homedir/.qmaildashext."
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I believe there is an alias facilty that does something similar
and involves something to do with sticking .qmail files in the
qmail/aliases directory. I have had poor success with that -
I wonder if the qmail daemon has the authority to write into my
application's directories.
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: David Geller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:58 PM
To: Tony Ennis
Subject: RE: qmail-users, users/assign, and qmail-newu
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Tony Ennis wrote:
> The man pages for the version of qmail I'm using says that the
> cdb file is made from the assign file:
>
> "qmail-newu reads the assignments in /var/qmail/users/assign
> and writes them into /var/qmail/users/cdb in a binary format
> suited for quick access by qmail-lspawn."
>
I'm confused now about what you're asking. You seem to be repeating what I
just wrote - suggesting that the info you have need to go into a file
named aliases in the /var/qmail/users directory.
There are no .qmail files involved.
- David
