On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 08:53 PM, Craig P. McDaniel, Jr. 
wrote:

>
> using .qmail-files,
>
> is there really a fundamental difference between aliases and forwarders?

Alias is for a local address, forward is for a remote address.

> For example, I can have .qmail-sales with the contents 
> "/path/to/Maildir" or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which is usually considered 
> an alias, yet it can point to ANY address..not just a local one.

> The contents may also contain "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]".   Note the 
> prefixed '&' here, which is for what?  This designates a "forwarder".
>
> Please explain to me the differences in these usages, and if support 
> for any of the above is planned to change.

man dot-qmail

Regards,

Bill Shupp

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