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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Greg Shaffer on May 01, 2001, 12:01:11 AM
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Hello -
Can anyone point me in the right direction for information on how mail forwarding and aliases are handled in qmail? I can find a lot of bits and pieces of information, but it seems like it is all trees and no forest and it only indirectly applies to e-smith. Note that in addition to be an e-smith/qmail beginner, I also do not know much about sendmail.
Basically I am hoping to switch from netscape mail server (NMS) to e-smith/qmail but I can't seem to figure out how to handle two email forwarding situations. They are as follows:
1) Old users - I want mail address to joe@mydomain forwarded to joe@joesnewdomain. I don't want to maintain a current user account for joe, I just want those messages redirected to his new server (on NMS I have a single file with each line containing and entry user@mydomain:user@newdomain ). Is there an equivalent?
2) Group forwards - can I set up a mail forwarding group/alias so that mail sent to bunchoffolks@mydomain can forward to a number of users within my domain as well as several users with addresses in other domains?
I have spent time enough time researching this to know that I need to use some sort of manually edited .xxx files to accomplish this (e.g. .qmail for users & groups? and various sendmail compatible files) but at least some of these seem to cause problems in the web interface. I found several add-ons to qmail that handle forwards in a way that makes sense to me, but they all seem to require recompiling qmail and that doesn't seem advisable with e-smith. Is there any package I can use on E-smith to make this easier?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Greg
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Greg Shaffer wrote:
> Can anyone point me in the right direction for information on
> how mail forwarding and aliases are handled in qmail?
You can find way more information than you need via www.qmail.org.
"man -M /var/qmail/man dot-qmail" will tell you the most important stuff.
> 1) Old users - I want mail address to joe@mydomain forwarded
> to joe@joesnewdomain. I don't want to maintain a current
> user account for joe, I just want those messages redirected
> to his new server (on NMS I have a single file with each line
> containing and entry user@mydomain:user@newdomain ). Is
> there an equivalent?
The *easiest* way to do this is to create an account for joe, but don't set up a password. Enter joe's forwarding address into the appropriate place in the form.
> 2) Group forwards - can I set up a mail forwarding
> group/alias so that mail sent to bunchoffolks@mydomain can
> forward to a number of users within my domain as well as
> several users with addresses in other domains?
The *easiest* way to do this is to create a group called "bunchoffolks". For each off-site user, create a locked account with mail forward as in the case of joe, above.
Regards
Charlie
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Charlie Brady, Referring to Greg Shaffer's questions: In this exa. after I have created that group "bunchoffolks" where/how do we forward mail from the alias to this group of users?