OK alls well and good but to me it just adds another layer of complexity but by using 
postfix we get the Maildirs we want and it workes out of the box which can be a good 
thing when upgrade time comes

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:11:33AM -0500, tc lewis wrote:
> 
> qmail can be told to not check the system homedirs/password db (and to
> check its own system user db instead).  see the qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu
> programs.
> 
> also, fastforward can be used as an aliases alternative:
> http://cr.yp.to/fastforward.html
> 
> -tcl.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Mark Bradbury wrote:
> 
> > The reason we changed from Qmail to Postfix is the issue of alias management
> > 
> > with Qmail
> > if you have a user foo
> > and an alias foo:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > mail sent to foo will end up in foos Maildir
> > because the alias file is checked last
> > 
> > this meens stuffing around with .forawrd/.qmail files
> > 
> > while postfix and send mail check the aliases file first so no .forward/.qmail 
>files are needed
> > 
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