Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-06-02 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Philip Hands wrote: > What were you trying to achieve ? --- it might be simpler than you think. > > I just discovered that most of my alias handling under qmail was drivel, and > could be dome much more simply. > > > If someone wants to spend some time on a simple mailer ha

Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-06-01 Thread Philip Hands
> (1) user-map [if all package maintainers are local] If you just want to be delivering mail to @packages.debian.org (rather than -@packages.debian.org), you can deliver to remote addresses with: In users/assign, create one line per package: =:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:+:fwd-: so in th

Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-06-01 Thread Raul Miller
On May 29, Bruce Perens wrote > I must admit to not understanding what that qmail alias file is for. > I do _all_ of my aliases with .qmail-* files . > > What I was trying to achieve was to have qmail forward a message without > messing around with the headers any more than necessary. Thus, I want

Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-05-30 Thread Carey Evans
Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > That seems simple enough. > > I think your best bet is this: > > 1) make sure control/locals does not contain packages.debian.org But make sure it's in control/rcpthosts, of course. > add this line to control/virtualdomains: > packages.debia

Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
> What I was trying to achieve was to have qmail forward a message without > messing around with the headers any more than necessary. Thus, I wanted > to have a .qmail-packages-default file to handle the packages.debian.org > domain, and that would look up the package name and map it to the maintai

Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-05-30 Thread Bruce Perens
I must admit to not understanding what that qmail alias file is for. I do _all_ of my aliases with .qmail-* files . What I was trying to achieve was to have qmail forward a message without messing around with the headers any more than necessary. Thus, I wanted to have a .qmail-packages-default fil

packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I had problems making it work because darned qmail won't parse a full > RFC822 address on the command line What were you trying to achieve ? --- it might be simpler than you think. I just discovered that most of my alias handling under qmail was drivel, and could be dom