Chris Green writes:
> I have created a file .qmail-maxine.green in /var/qmail/alias with
> just 'maxine' in it but that doesn't seem to work.
There's a big warning about this in the dot-qmail man page. There's also
ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/faq/incominguser.html#alias-dots.
> It also seems a
> rather clumsy mechanism if I wanted to create a lot of aliases.
There are hooks for external alias mechanisms. You can use fastforward,
for example, if you prefer the /etc/aliases format.
> Should I be using
> the /var/qmail/users/assign file describe in qmail-users (but I don't
> have one at the moment).
You could set one up by putting
maxine:maxine:maxine.green:
into users/mailnames, running qmail-pw2u, and running qmail-newu. You
could then remove your alias. This would make maxine.green-* addresses
work the same way as maxine-* addresses.
> What I would really like to do is arrange that all mail for (regex)
> '.*maxine.*@isbd.demon.co.uk' would go to maxine, is there a simple
> way to do this?
You could insert something like
|case "_$LOCAL_" in _*maxine*_) forward maxine; esac
at the top of your existing ~alias/.qmail-default.
---Dan
