Re: Re[2]: Want alias to server multiple user accounts

[Dave Sill <de5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

nednieuws | charles <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>It used to be easy: my local account name in
>/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster and every
>postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx gets delivered to me. Do I now have to
>create a postmaster account for every virtual domain that I host?

No, you don't have to create a postmaster account, but you do have to
create a .qmail file if you want postmaster@virtualdomain to work.

This falls under the "understanding how qmail does local delivery"
part I mentioned in my previous message.

Given a virtualdomains entry like:

example.com:foo-bar

You should now know that mail to postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx will be
delivered locally to foo-bar-postmaster.

If you have a "foo" user, and it's a valid mail user according to
qmail-getpw, then the file to handle postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx is
~foo/.qmail-bar-postmaster (or ~foo/.qmail-bar-default or
~foo/.qmail-default).

If you don't have a "foo" user or it's not a valid mail user, the
delivery will be handled as if the local recipient was
alias-foo-bar-postmaster, so qmail-local will look for
~alias/.qmail-foo-bar-postmaster (or ~alias/.qmail-foo-bar-default or
~alias/.qmail-foo-default or ~alias/.qmail-default).

-Dave