Re: way to deliver to Maildir bypassing .qmail files?

It is working now.  I had omitted the / at the end of the pathname used to
distinguish a Maildir line from an mbox line.

Incidentally the Maildir line works equally well in the .qmail-* file in the
domain directory and in the .qmail file in the account directory.

Thanks for the help, and sorry for taking extra bandwidth due to my typo.

-Kurt


On 3/6/11 10:42 PM, "Kurt Bigler" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rick et al,
> 
> On 3/6/11 9:30 PM, "Rick Widmer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/6/2011 10:13 PM, Kurt Bigler wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm in a time-sensitive bind in which I need to set something up quickly for
>>> a user in my existing qmail+vpopmail+qmailadmin system (which has a little
>>> procmail sprinkled in).
>>> 
>>> The goal is to create a new forward or forwarding account that forwards to
>>> this user's existing account but bypasses the .qmail file associated with
>>> that account (which invokes spam filtering).  In short I want to deliver to
>>> the Maildir but skip the .qmail instructions.  If I'm not mistaken the
>>> mechanisms I can think of within vpopmail do NOT do this.
>> 
>> Don't create an account for the new address, instead create a
>> .qmail-new-address file in the domain directory.  In that .qmail file
>> add the following:
>> 
>> /full/path/to/old/Maildir/
>> 
>> I don't believe it is possible with qmailadmin anymore, but you should
>> be able to set it up by hand.  It will probably show up in qmailadmin
>> once you create the forward, but DO NOT edit it with qmailadmin.
>> 
>> Rick
> 
> Yes, thanks, I just tried that, having carefully checked the full path name,
> incoming emails are being discarded.  The log shows qmail-queue accepting
> delivery but nothing comes through.
> 
> Permissions look ok, unless qmail is being fussy about the owner.  I do have
> one symlink involved in my setup (which has caused no other problems):
> 
>     vps# ll -ld /var/vpopmail/domains
>     lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  vchkpw  12 Feb 13  2009 /var/vpopmail/domains ->
>                                                             /old/domains
> 
> and I wonder whether the root owner of the symlink should instead be
> vpopmail, but don't dare to change it casually since the mail system is live
> and working.
> 
> The rest of the items in the pathname are all:
> 
>     drwx------   vpopmail  vchkpw
> 
> And I also tried spelling the full pathname using /old/domains directly
> instead of going through the symlink /var/vpopmail/domains.
> 
> Next I'm trying to see if I can use a relative path (using . instad of /) in
> the qmail-* file.
> 
> Thanks for the help so far.
> 
> -Kurt
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