Hi all,
sent this to the maildrop list as well, but thought the people here may
be a good source to ask too :)
What I am trying to do is get aliased accounts filtered, ie, mail sent
to an alias, which goes to the real user gets caught by maildrop, so
that it can be collated properly. The .qmail-alias_user only re-directs
the mail to the users Maildir, doesnt seem to allow it to be handled by
either vdeliver, or maildrop (cause it doesnt seem to be re-placed in
the queue.. just physically moved)
This one is puzzling me a bit, and is probably not too hard, but a
search of the archives on both the vpopmail list and the maildrop and
didnt seem to
show a solution for me.
Setup - qmail, vpopmail, maildrop (all working, individual .mailfilter
files, also working)
I have various aliases created, which create the appropriate
~vpopmail/domains/some.domain/.qmail-alias_user file, something like
this
content of .qmail-alias_user
/home/vpopmail/domains/some.domain/real_user/Maildir/
this works 'properly' in that it ends up placed in the 'real' users
Maildir.
However I also have an entry in the 'real' users mailfilter, that should
take mail being sent to this alias, and re-direct it to a folder for
easy collation... something like this
~vpopmail/domains/some.domain/real_user/.mailfilter looks something like
this:
###################
#header - To:
#match - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#delivery - to - alias_user (the folder I want it to end up in)
exception {
if (/^To: *alias_user@some\.domain$/)
{
to "$VHOME/Maildir/.alias_user/"
}
}
############################
(should move any mail received that was sent to alias_user to the folder
I have to collect it all)
This file is included into a domain wide mailfilter (used for SPAM
stuff) and the format works.
However, this one, even though the To IS [EMAIL PROTECTED] still
ends up in the real_user INBOX.
I would guess (have been reading tho I am not sure bout this) that it
may be because the .qmail-alias_user hasnt got anything in it to allow
it to be handled by maildrop, and isn't placed back for vdeliver to
process, just moved to the Maildir/ of the real user.
I was wondering what I would need to do to the .qmail-alias (if that is
the right place), to re-process it perhaps so that the real users
.mailfilter catches it out of the queue, either that, or if anyone has
done this sort of thing, if you could give me a few pointers on how you
did it, it would be really appreciated.
Thanks heaps
David
(learnin more every day)
