* Van Liedekerke Franky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-01-10 15:34]:

> normally the alias files (/var/qmail/alias/.qmail*) are only looked at when
> no local recipient can be found, even with stock qmail this is the case.
> Maybe if you tell us what you want to accomplish, we can help you ...

It's like, this ISP which provides free Internet access.  Users sign up
on a web page and can choose their own username (and thereby also email
address).  

I need to make sure that some email addresses (like postmaster,
hostmaster, webmaster and quite a few other) always end up the right
place.  If I add these addresses in /var/qmail/alias/*, a user simply
have to register a user with postmaster, hostmaster or whatever (the
name of a (temporary) internal "mailinglist" for instance) to receive
their email.  You get the idea.. :)

Yes, I could add these users to the LDAP and forward them from there,
that is probably the best solution after all (and that's what I do today),
but I find it a lot faster to just edit the relevant file(s) in
/var/qmail/alias/* when I need to do updates (which is quite often).

> Otherwise modifying the source and recompiling is the only way, but you'll
> find this not to be self-evident.

:-D

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Vegard Svanberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)]

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