Mailing List Archive: ~alias/.qmail-default question

Hi all

I'm looking into using qmail as a replacement for sendmail at Rutgers Univ.
Unfortunatly, because we have machines with over 30k users, I have to use
qsmhook to make the transition smoother.

Here is my problem, which one take precedence, ~me/.qmail or ~alias/.qmail-
default.? I'm trying to make sure that our mail.local does the right thing
in most cases and as far as I can tell, qmail only uses the ~alias/.qmail-
default entry and fires up mail.local without checking for ~me/.qmail.
The side effect of this is that any forwards or procmail call or whatever
in ~me/.qmail never get processed.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Any ideas?

Vlad

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Vladimir Gabrielescu writes:

> Here is my problem, which one take precedence, ~me/.qmail or ~alias/.qmail-
> default.?

~me/.qmail. If the user exists, and users/assign does not exist, then
the user ALWAYS controls their own mail. ~alias/.qmail-default only
controls mail which does not match a username. Oh, and the user may
choose to use the system-wide .qmail file (contained in the definition
ALIAS_EMPTY in conf-unusual.h) by having no (or empty) .qmail file.

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