On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:48:31PM +0000, Jennifer Tippens wrote:
> 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.
Excepting that there is no need to "reload" qmail - whatever that
means.
Aliases are evaluated as part of local delivery and as such are totally
re-evaluated each time. It's not knowledge that qmail retains in anyway.
Regards.
>
> -Jennifer
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> 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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