Hi martin, On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 06:27:42 -0800 (PST) martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 1) Change the &username entry to >>> &/home/vpopmail/domains/domain/username >> Never ever. >> But do you have even _tried_ to read qmail >> documentation? > Yes, I have it printed out and have been using qmail > for 5-years. To be honest: I would have guessed so. > The problem is trying to understand how vpopmail is > doing things. It does it "the qmail way". Have you never ever noticed while reading vpopmail documentation it uses _absolutely identical_ syntax for dor-qmail files? Have you _ever_ understood what qmail uses /var/qmail/users/* for? No? Than you lied and you haven't read qmail documentation. Yes? So what makes you think there's something different in syntax? There _can't_ be a difference in syntax for files like ~vpopmail/domains/yourdomain.com/.qmail-whatever because they _are_ processed by qmail itself, not vpopmail nor any part of it. Execute the following command to educate yourself about qmail, virtual domains and dot-qmail using and handling for VDs (assuming your incarnation of 'man' respects $MANPATH): MANPATH=/var/qmail/man man qmail-users MANPATH=/var/qmail/man man dot-qmail vpopmail is there for _only_ two things: - preventing you from creating a dot-qmail file for _every_ e-mail-address you want to be handled in a virtual domain, by using the .qmail-default mechanism of qmail and having a program behind this file (vdelivermail) that looks up a database (real DB or dot-cdb file) for delivery instructions - providing a password checking tool (vchkpw) that makes use of an own and system independent user database (again: real DB or dot-cdb file) Everything else is the _pure_ qmail way. 'vadddomain' does nothing that can't be achieved by manually editing _qmail_ configuration files. 'vadduser' is only a helping tool to handle the "independent user db". 'vpopmail' only let you distribute an e-mail easier to all known users, nothing that can't be done without it (albeit it's quite more comfortable this way :-)). For not being misunderstood: I _do_ appreciate development of vpopmail, the package itself and the easy interface for administer virtual domains; I'm no qmail fetishist who loves it to do everything the manual way. But I really wish people would stop trying to put to much "esoteric ideas" in the way vpopmail works. It simly makes great use of a equally great basic system. qmail simply is build to be easily extended, and that is what vpopmail does. Extend where necessary / useful; reuse where possible. -- Pit
