Re: [vchkpw] The low-down on the valias feature

[Dave Goodrich]

Tom Collins wrote:
On Sep 24, 2004, at 7:25 AM, Dave Goodrich wrote:
I've read all the posts in the archive afterching on "valias", a lot 
of posts, and I think my assumptions are correct. I would like to know 
if there are any limitations I should be aware of.

--enable-valias configures vpopmail to store .qmail-alias files in a 
table.  It does not affect the .qmail files in POP/IMAP user directories.

Currently, it can only properly handle email forwarding or calling a 
single program.  In the initial design, there wasn't a method to ensure 
the processing order of alias entries.  So, any .qmail-alias file in 
which the execution order is important (like spam scanning), will not 
work with valiases.
This answers my most pressing question, thank you.
It should be a simple fix -- add an auto-incrementing sequence column to 
the table and sort the results by it.  Entries will always be returned 
in the order they were added. The only problem is we need an easy way
to update existing valias tables to add the column.  
Yes, but if there are no current multi line entries in existing valias 
tables, then could not all rows be altered to have the column with a 
value of 1?

More complex .qmail 
files will be difficult to edit/manage if stored in the valias table.
Yes, I had thought so as well, which is why I asked. With command line 
tools this really could be nothing more than add, view, delete an entry.

You can store aliases, forwards and autoresponders in the valias table. 
 ezmlm mailing lists need to stay in .qmail files so ezmlm-make can 
modify them whenever the list's settings are changed.  .qmail-default 
remains as a .qmail file so qmail-local can find it and pass the message 
on to vdelivermail.
This is the one I couldn't find a hint of in the archives! I can use 
both valias and .qmail files within the same domain? (ezmlm and my spam 
script are the biggest concerns)

Provided I can have both, which hold precedence? If there is a 
.qmail-<user> file, and a <user> entry in valias, which is run and which 
is not?

Thank you,
DAve
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