On 17 Aug 2001 20:48:07 +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
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> Hello Bill,
>
> Friday, August 17, 2001, 8:28:11 PM, you wrote:
> > Listing all users IS in the library via "vauth_getall". However,
> > showing aliases/forwards isn't yet (only mysql, I think).
>
> With MySQL, it is reasonably easy to implement, some select queries
> is
> all you need but it would be kinda cool if one could use the
> functions
> with cdb too, especially as there is a vpopmail extension to PHP now
> (although I got some doubts whether it is such a wise thing to run
> a complete Apache/PHP environment under vpopmail:vchkpw but...) as I
> imagine that many people would like to code such stuff in PHP.
>
> > he hopes to integrate the valias functions into the API, but has
> > not had time to do it yet.
>
> Ah ok.
>
> > I tend to think that while .qmail files are still used for
> > alias/forwards for some auth modules, it would be easier to manage
> > them when kept in the domain directory, rather than user
> > directories.
>
> I haven't really had a deeper look into the .qmail stuff but as you
> can't
> have anymore than one user per email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]), it shouldn't be such a problem to use them for
> autoreponders/vacation given qmail doesn't go crazy if there's .qmail
> AND
> a Maildir for an user.
>
> This would also help the admins that need to fix broken installations
> etc cause they knew that all not plain Maildir stuff is in
> domain.com/
> and not somewhere down the way in the users messes...
You might want to take a look at the latest vqadmin devel
version. it understands and displays the users .qmail file
content, forwarding/vacaction.
Ken Jones
