For example, $USER is set by qmail-local when it hands mail to vdelivermail, but this envariable is left unaltered: when the .qmail files are processed by vdelivermail, $USER is set to "domain.com" - which is just silly. Similarly, $HOME is set, but it is incorrect - it should be the virtual user's home, rather than vpopmail's home (why would anybody's mail delivering scripts need to know where vpopmail's home is? if nothing else that can be *EASILY* hardcoded in, it's not like it's gonna CHANGE for any of the users).
Agreed, it'd be nice if all my tmda virtual user setups could avoid looking like:
.... ~/username/Maildir/ .....
It's probably "technically" correct to leave them as is, just not very
useful, and it makes the domain less "virtual". If these envariables are
fixed by vdelivermail, it would make it *MUCH* easier to move an
existing qmail installation into a virtual setup. With the exception of
qmail-extensions (which are done weirdly under vpopmail), nobody's
.qmail files would need to be manually edited!
Above all, it would wonderful if the envariables were made lowercase so I (and others) can take those dang "tr" calls out of our scripts. But some more intelligent environment setup would be a GREAT help.
Well said. :)
Regards, -- Dave Steinberg http://www.geekisp.com/ http://www.steinbergcomputing.com/
