----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Andy Coates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 4:20 AM
Subject: Re: Virtual Domains and MX Records
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 03:46:22AM +0100, Andy Coates wrote:
> > Now reading the FAQ's and howto's etc I was led to believe that this
would
> > basically take the following steps:
> > 1) mail arrives at domain.co.uk mail server
> > 2) mail server has domain in its rcpthosts, good
> > 3) is the domain in locals? no..
> > 4) is the domain a virtualdomain? yes... deliver to <username>
> >
> > And then username goes and checks his mail and there's the message.
> >
> > At the moment I'm getting a:
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
>
> There needs to be a .qmail-default file in ~username with delivery
> instructions. If you want the default delivery instruction (which is
probably
> to deliver mail to ./Mailbox or ./Maildir/), just create an empty
> ..qmail-default file.
Aaaaaargh thats it!! Soooo close, I thought with the <username> in the
virtualdomain bit would just send it locally to <username>.
Thanks, I did just make an empty one and it works perfectly. Wow thats a
relief :-)
Later,
Andy.
