Re: Aliases chdir problems

2001-04-02 Thread Charles Cazabon
Alex Le Fevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since OBSD doesn't seem to want to let me have user names over 8 characters, I'd like to set up an alias to a user account to solve the problem. My impression was that I could just do the following: 1) create /home/alias/.qmail-thealiasname, containing

Re: Aliases chdir problems

2001-04-02 Thread Johan Almqvist
* Alex Le Fevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010402 17:24]: Since OBSD doesn't seem to want to let me have user names over 8 characters, I'd like to set up an alias to a user account to solve the problem. My impression was that I could just do the following: 1) create

Re: Aliases chdir problems

2001-04-02 Thread Alex Le Fevre
Not quite; that will try to deliver to an mbox file named "Maildir" in username's homedir, but as user alias. Chances are that you want that .qmail file to contain "username" instead, which will forward the mail from the long name to the short username. Then, that user's .qmail file (or

Re: Aliases chdir problems

2001-04-02 Thread Charles Cazabon
Alex Le Fevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just have one question: is there any good way to control the user's reply-to and from addresses via Qmail? It's showing up as [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's just minor cosmetics, though. There are various half-baked solutions,