Yep, .qmail-default placed in the users home directory solved my problem. Thanx to Markus! Kind regards Oliver oliver bender system administrator morphochem AG gmunder str. 37-37a 81379 muenchen tel. ++49-89-78005-0 fax ++49-89-78005-555 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.morphochem.de -----Original Message----- From: Markus Stumpf [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2001 20:03 To: oliver bender Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Alias problem with "-" before "." Cc adjusted. On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 03:29:24PM +0100, oliver bender wrote: > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > There is a user account "paul" existing on that system, having a .qmail > file in his home directory /home/paul. This .qmail (or even .qmail-john (as > I've read in some of the replies to other similar problems)) will lead into > the above result. We're using qmail as a mailrelay server running Microsoft > Exchange as the local mailsystem. Mails within our company sites are > encrypted. We don't have the dot-forward installed, yet. Create a .qmail-default file in /home/paul. This will catch up addresses like paul-<anything>. If you want to treat paul-john.doe specially you need a .qmail-john:doe file in /home/paul. See dot-qmail(5) "EXTENSION ADDRESSES" \Maex -- SpaceNet AG | http://www.Space.Net/ | Stress is when you wake Research & Development | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | up screaming and you Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0 | realize you haven't D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 | fallen asleep yet.
