It is working now. I had omitted the / at the end of the pathname used to distinguish a Maildir line from an mbox line.
Incidentally the Maildir line works equally well in the .qmail-* file in the domain directory and in the .qmail file in the account directory. Thanks for the help, and sorry for taking extra bandwidth due to my typo. -Kurt On 3/6/11 10:42 PM, "Kurt Bigler" <k...@breathsense.com> wrote: > Rick et al, > > On 3/6/11 9:30 PM, "Rick Widmer" <vch...@developersdesk.com> wrote: > >> On 3/6/2011 10:13 PM, Kurt Bigler wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm in a time-sensitive bind in which I need to set something up quickly for >>> a user in my existing qmail+vpopmail+qmailadmin system (which has a little >>> procmail sprinkled in). >>> >>> The goal is to create a new forward or forwarding account that forwards to >>> this user's existing account but bypasses the .qmail file associated with >>> that account (which invokes spam filtering). In short I want to deliver to >>> the Maildir but skip the .qmail instructions. If I'm not mistaken the >>> mechanisms I can think of within vpopmail do NOT do this. >> >> Don't create an account for the new address, instead create a >> .qmail-new-address file in the domain directory. In that .qmail file >> add the following: >> >> /full/path/to/old/Maildir/ >> >> I don't believe it is possible with qmailadmin anymore, but you should >> be able to set it up by hand. It will probably show up in qmailadmin >> once you create the forward, but DO NOT edit it with qmailadmin. >> >> Rick > > Yes, thanks, I just tried that, having carefully checked the full path name, > incoming emails are being discarded. The log shows qmail-queue accepting > delivery but nothing comes through. > > Permissions look ok, unless qmail is being fussy about the owner. I do have > one symlink involved in my setup (which has caused no other problems): > > vps# ll -ld /var/vpopmail/domains > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root vchkpw 12 Feb 13 2009 /var/vpopmail/domains -> > /old/domains > > and I wonder whether the root owner of the symlink should instead be > vpopmail, but don't dare to change it casually since the mail system is live > and working. > > The rest of the items in the pathname are all: > > drwx------ vpopmail vchkpw > > And I also tried spelling the full pathname using /old/domains directly > instead of going through the symlink /var/vpopmail/domains. > > Next I'm trying to see if I can use a relative path (using . instad of /) in > the qmail-* file. > > Thanks for the help so far. > > -Kurt > > > > > > > > > > !DSPAM:4d74884e32711005111589!
