well as my friend largo nicely put it 01:13 < Iargo> --enable-valias=y
hehe ;) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mustafa Hashmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 5:40 PM Subject: [vchkpw] alias support via vpopmail in PHP > Hi all, > > We have moved to qmail / vpopmail completely and it's working very well for our >needs. We run a control panel written (in-house) in php which used to take care of >adding / deleting users before we had moved to vpopmail. > > The new mail server however works in a jailed freebsd environment and does not offer >direct access to commands, and in our limited environment, we don't want to offer >qmailadmin to our clients. > > I decided a good way to link our control panel to the new mail server using php's >internal vpopmail functions would be via an xml gateway. One sends authenticated >internal posts (via ssl) to the this gateway -- the gateway is running as vpopmail >and carries out the requests. The response is sent back to our control panel as an >xml document. This solves many issues and offers great flexibility. I finished >implementing the code yesterday and it's all working well. > > Enough with the background, on with the problem. > > The valias function is not support by php as the functionality is left out of >vpopmail itself (please correct me if I am wrong), and I the way around this, as far >as I can figure out, is writing a .qmail-user file in the domains/domainname.com >directory with the | vdelivermail line for the new email address. > > As the (xml) server is running as vpopmail, this is hardly a problem to do -- >however, I was curious if this would be the most sound method. What do you guys >think? Am I overlooking something very obvious or is writing a file manually a good >solution? > > I appreciate your comments. > > Best regards, > Mustafa. > -- > "If I knew I'd live this long, I'd take better care of myself." > >
