On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 04:39:56 -0400 Jasper Metselaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a real [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is tagged for spam checking. The > .qmail-default contains > > | /usr/local/bin/maildrop <mailfilter file> > > which calls maildrop and in mailfilter, runs through spamd to check for spam then > pass it back to vdelivermail to deliver to the proper mailbox. Then I created a > [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is an alias to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A .qmail-test is created > which points to mydomain.com/user/Maildir. When an email > is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], qmail just dumps it directly into user's > mailbox,completely out of the spam checking task. > > Shouldn't the .qmail-test file's content be the same as the .qmail-default file? > How do you enable alias to behave the same as the account that it's aliased to? Of > course I can use a forwarder to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead, but I don't think this is > the best way....or? > > Thanks in advance for your suggestions! > > Jasper > > _______________________________________________________ > > > it is actually very simple, /mydomain/user/Maildir/ is a delivery statement, you are telling it to deliver to that mailbox, that's what is says. if you don't want the mail to be delivered to that box, don't put a delivery statement in the .qmail. if you put "| /path/to/maildrop ..." you'd be telling it to run maildrop if you put "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" you'd be telling it to redeliver the message as though it was for user, at which point it would go through the process of reading .qmail files for user read http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/dot-qmail.html, it explains it all.
