Re: fastforward: wildcards

1999-09-07 Thread Ira Abramov

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Kush wrote:

> I have a mail gateway and it forwards email to specific mail hosts in my
> network. I have a few mailing lists on these mail hosts, but the mail
> gateway (with fastforward) is unable to forward any email destined to
> the ezmlm list email addresses.
> 
>  I have `noc:@shell.blah.com` in my aliases file

why do you use fastforward to forward the Emails then? if the servers
inside the firewall are of the format YYY.blah.com and the mail is infact
destined for [EMAIL PROTECTED] then use smtproutes. if it is a single
domain that you split to departmental mail servers, I sugest using a
fastforward file for the flat aliases, and a .qmail-aliasname-default for
aliases that may have extensions.


> This doesn't happen because noc-subscribe@ isnt in the alias file. Is
> there
> anyway I can specify a wildcard in the alias files? perhaps:
>   noc::@shell.blah.com? (I heard ":" could be a wildcard in qmail?)

you heard wrong. : is used in .qmail filenames to replace dots (some
security reason, forgot right now)

also, I don't believe "@hostname" as the right parameter is a legal
format.

what you want:

cd ~alias
echo "| forward $[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > .qmail-noc
ln -s .qmail-noc .qmail-noc-default


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fastforward: wildcards

1999-09-06 Thread Kush

Hi,

I have a mail gateway and it forwards email to specific mail hosts in my
network. I have a few mailing lists on these mail hosts, but the mail
gateway (with fastforward) is unable to forward any email destined to
the ezmlm list email addresses.

I.e:

 I have `noc:@shell.blah.com` in my aliases file
 
 On shell.blah.com is where the ezmlm lists are running. When someone
send
 email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] normally I wnat the gateway to forward
the
 email to shell.balh.com server for processing.

This doesn't happen because noc-subscribe@ isnt in the alias file. Is
there
anyway I can specify a wildcard in the alias files? perhaps:
  noc::@shell.blah.com? (I heard ":" could be a wildcard in qmail?)

Thanks.