The later versions of qmailadmin and vpopmail support forwarding by creating a .qmail file in the users directory (where thier Maildir lives). That might be why you don't see a .qmail-"username" file.
Ken Jones On Friday 27 December 2002 03:55 pm, Malcolm wrote: > Hi there, > > Long time user of qmail, vpopmail, qmailadmin, and sqwebmail. > > Recently on one of our servers running qmailadmin 1.0.2 the "Forward" > function broke if doing it from within the email address's part. In other > words Login, select "email addresses", click "modify" on a person's name > and try setting the forward. > > It just simply did not write the ususal .qmail-user file. Although it > remembers the email address you want it forwarded too because if you come > back later it's still there. > > However if you Login and then click on "aliases forwards" you can add a > forward over there just fine. > > I rebooted, fixed nothing. I recompiled the source and reinstalled > ./configure > make > make install > > and that too fixed nothing. > > So I downloaded the latest 1.0.6 and installed it. > > Now interesting thing happens. If I go to "email addresses", click on a > users name and "modify" then set a forward it saves it and it WORKS. Yet > there is no .qmail-user file and if I go to the section "aliases forwards" > it's not there. I can add it there in addition. > > Then when the user un-does the forward within the "email address" section > it still forwards because of the .qmail-user file written in the "aliases > forwards" section. Of course I just undo that and it's all fixed. > > Can someone explain this to me. How is qmailadmin setting up a forward > without a .qmail-forward file? Was it always this way and I just never > noticed or did someone change it?? > > Thanks a million and sorry for the mouth full of a post. > > Malcolm
