Re: Aliases problems

On Thu 19/Dec/2024 01:14:57 +0100 Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Alessandro Vesely writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have some aliases and then an aliasdir which should catch all the rest.
>>
>> Now I tried to set an alias directed to an executable, like so:
>>
>>    [email protected]: | /path/to/executable
>>
>> (as explained in http://www.courier-mta.org/ 
>> makealiases.html#makealiases_program_or_mailbox_aliases)
>> but dumping alias.dat after makealiases I get:
>>
>>    [email protected]: ".xalias/name@domain+2eex"@<machine name>
>>
>> where <machine name> is the content of me.  The name of the executable 
>> doesn't appear.  What goes wrong?
> 
> There's nothing wrong. And mailing something to the alias will invoke the 
> executable.
> 
> You will find a .courier-:xalias subdirectory in courier's etc/aliasdir 
> directory, with this delivery instruction. makealiases maintains this directory.
> 
> The aliasdir directory is documented in the dot-courier man page. An alias to 
> an executable is implemented by pointing the alias to a specific .courier file.


It doesn't work.  I have a .courier-default file in aliasdir which seems to 
have precedence over .courier-:xalias.

Never mind, they now say they want a real mailbox rather than an alias.

Thank you anyway
Ale
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