Re: qmailadmin and forwards

On 08/28/2014 02:26 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> 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.

  It has to do with the way vpopmail uses qmail hooks to do its job.
When you create the example.com domain, vpopmail modifies the
/var/qmail/users/assign database so that qmail-local delivers the mail
according to the instructions in ~/vpopmail/domains/example.com .
So what reads your .qmail-* files in the domain directory is not
vdelivermail, it's simply qmail-local.

  What vpopmail does is put a vdelivermail invocation in .qmail-default
in the domain directory. vdelivermail then extracts the user name,
looks it up in its vpasswd database to find the correct directory
(most of the time ~vpopmail/domains/example.com/user) and delivers the
mail according to the instructions in that directory.

  If you put a .qmail file in the domain directory, that takes precedence
over .qmail-default, then vdelivermail will be bypassed entirely. So
don't do that - let vpopmail do its black magic on the domain directory
and only use user directories to put your .qmail files into.

  There are 2 things I'm not satisfied with, but they have nothing to do
with the domain-wide .qmail files.
  The first thing is that vdelivermail duplicates most of the work of
qmail-local for parsing .qmail files. It would be much more elegant to
have vdelivermail just perform the vpopmail-specific stuff (extract user
name, check the vpasswd database, go to user directory) then exec into
qmail-local itself.
  The second thing is that vdelivermail does not make all the black
magic transparent: the .qmail files in a user directory cannot be
written exactly as if the user was a system user instead of a vpopmail
user. I have a program, vsanitize, to be called in .qmail files
in vpopmail user directories, that moves around a few environment
variables to provide such transparency.

-- 
  Laurent

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