Re: details of the *-subscribe function

Thus said Tres Melton on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:09:53 MST:

> It does not  have a user associated  with it but is  configured in the
> alias directory.  I can  send to  it fine (and  receive) but  can't do
> things like austrian-subscribe@.. austrian-help@... etc.

What does this look like:

ls -l /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-austrian*

Also, is this a virtualdomains or a locals domain? If virtual, what does
your  /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains file  say  for  this domain?  In
addition, are you using qmail-users?

> I also  recall reading (but  haven't tested) that qmail  should handle
> user-name  by first  looking for  the  user or  alias "user-name"  and
> failing  that then  look  for "user"  so  I don't  see  why an  actual
> "list-name" would fail.

The rules for  how qmail decides where to deliver  an email are detailed
in man dot-qmail. You might also want  to have a look at the PIC.* files
in the qmail source tree.

Andy
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