Re: qmailadmin and forwards

On 08/27/2014 11:24 PM, Rick Widmer wrote:
> One thing to remember, and one of my pet peeves...
>
> Out of all of the files in ~vpopmail/domains/example.com/ only one, 
> .qmail-default has anything to do with the vpopmail delivery process.
>
> When qmail-local tries to deliver a message to the domain it looks at 
> all of the .qmail-* files in the domain directory, and processes the 
> .qmail* file that best matches the incoming address.  If no other 
> .qmail file matches .qmail-default is processed, which is where 
> vdelivermail gets control.
>
>
> see:    man dot-qmail
>
>
> .qmail files in ~vpopmail/domains/example.com/username will be handled 
> by vdelivermail depending on compiler options.
>
> Vpopmail and qmailadmin do manage the .qmail files in the domain 
> directory, but during the delivery process qmail does not pass control 
> to vpopmail unless none of the other .qmail files match.
>
> 
>
Thanks for this explanation Rick. Now knowing how this actually works, I 
think I'll join you in being peeved about it. Not knowing any better, I 
would have presumed that the user d-q files would have been processed 
before the domain d-q files. Makes me wonder what the rationale is/was 
for processing the domain files first.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'


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