Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yep. See /var/qmail/doc/PIC.local2alias. alias will get control of mail only
>if a user account doesn't exist.
>> But why one alias, ~alias/.qmail-mail, works fine? That was where I got
>> confused and started to ask ... ;-)
> I don't know, and couldn't tell you without looking at your whole setup. But
> if there's an account called "mail" and there's nothing in users/assign that
> says otherwise, ~alias/.qmail-mail won't do anything. If it works in your
> case, then something isn't exactly as you described.
I could be wrong, but it might be because something about those "regular
accounts" is funny, and qmail doesn't consider it a valid account. The
rules qmail-getpw uses are (from the manpage):
qmail-getpw considers an account in /etc/passwd to be a user if (1) the
account has a nonzero uid, (2) the account's home directory exists (and is
visible to qmail- getpw), and (3) the account owns its home directory.
qmail-getpw ignores account names containing uppercase letters
So if "mail" or "web" has a non-existent home directory, or one they don't
own, the ~alias/.qmail- files might work for those accounts.
Charles
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