From qmail-ldap.h: /* ALIASDEVNULL replacement for the std. aliasempty for user with * neither homeDirectory nor mailMessageStore defined */ #define ALIASDEVNULL "|sh -c \"cat > /dev/null\"" /* just pipe everything to /dev/null, you could also use a program/script * to make a notify the postmaster if something like this happens. * It's up to the reader to write such a simple script */
Regards, -Oscar On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 02:29 PM, Drew Raines wrote: > In migrating my LDAP users yesterday from solely Unix logins to > qmailUsers, and most everything is working well. > > Unfortunately, I forgot one user's qmailUser-class settings, i.e. > mailmessagestore, qmailUID, qmailGID. This person has been > missing messages all day and after checking the log to see why, > it looks like they've been hitting the bit bucket: > > delivery 1287: log: > executing_'qmail-local_--_joeuser_/var/qmail/alias_\ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]|sh_-c_"cat_>_/dev/ > null"'_under_uid=5001,_gid=32767 > > Why did this happen? There's nothing in the alias account's > directory that specifies throwing the message away. There's > not even a ~alias/.qmail-default. Why didn't the messages > bounce? > > I have control/ldaplocaldelivery set to 0, but I wouldn't the > intuitive behavior be to bounce the message in the event of an > anomaly? > > -Drew > -- pgp fingerprint: BC64 2E7A CAEF 39E1 9544 80CA F7D5 784D FB46 16C1
