I have only been testing POP accounts that also have forwards.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lu Vo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 8:01 PM
> To: Bill Shupp
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: forwarding catchall
>
>
> > on 6/14/01 3:10 PM, Lu Vo at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake:
> >
> > > But vdelivermail is for delivering mails to a virtual user.
> > > What I am doing here is delivering mails to an external
> e-mail address.
> > >
> > > Once you change your mind and want to deliver mail back to a
> > virtual user,
> > > just click on the catchall for that user in the POP accounts
> > window and the
> > > line
> > >
> > > | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail ''
> > >
> > > will be added back to prepend whatever POP account you have selected.
> > >
> > > Lu.
> >
> > Maybe we're talking about 2 different situations. I'm trying
> to set it up
> > so that only *unmatching* addresses go to the external
> > "catch-all" address.
> > Since there are some local users for that domain, then you need
> > .qmail-default to have | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' in it, or
> > qmail-local will never know about the domain's local users.
> >
> > I've been playing around with the catch-all code, and have a
> > working version
> > that creates the remote catch-all like:
> >
> > | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > I'm going to try and move this into the user.c file, and make the
> > "show_users" section allow you to set no default, define a local
> > account, or
> > define a remote account for catch-all mail. Since the catch-all code is
> > already there, I think it would make more sense there than in
> the forwards
> > section.
> >
> > The obvious benefit of not piping through vdelivermail first
> > means that the
> > postmaster mail will get forwarded too. But this can be done (manually,
> > currently) by .qmail-postmaster. I may try to address that later.
> >
> > Has anyone (other than Lu) already worked on defining remote catch-all
> > accounts via qmailadmin? I'd hate to duplicate efforts. Any
> thoughts on
> > doing this are welcome as well.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bill Shupp
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> The catchall in this case is only dealing with unmatching e-mails.
> e-mails that match other virtual POP users do *not* end up being
> handled by
> the default rules anyway do they ?
> I have tested this very thing a few times and find that it is working as
> expected.
>
> Lu.
