no, touch a file called .qmail-paul_vera in /var/qmail/alias.  edit it to contain 
pvera on one line and that's it.  reload qmail and you are all set.

-Jennifer

On Tue, 02 May 2000 Marcelo J. Iturbe  wrote:
> Hi...
> I am having trouble understanding how the aliases work.
> If I have a user named pvera and he would like to receive email being sent 
> to paul_vera all I have to do is touch .qmail-paul_vera in /home/pvera???
> This does not sound right.
> In the FAQ I saw:
> How do I create aliases with dots? I tried setting up 
> ~alias/.qmail-P.D.Q.Bach, but it doesn't do anything.
> Answer: Use .qmail-p:d:q:bach. Dots are converted to colons, and uppercase 
> is converted to lowercase.
> 
> but that just confused me even more...
> 
> thanks,
> Marcelo
> 
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