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Sep 12, 2009, 9:15 AM
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Re: a small bit of confusion over virtualdomains
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At 6:21 AM 9/12/09, Payal wrote:
>Say in control/virtualdomains I have,
>example.org:payal
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>In user/assign I have,
>+payal-:payal:1003:1003:/home/payal::test:
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>If I send a mail to r [at] example, in what order "dot-qmail" files will
>be consulted for delivery instructions?
Let's assume that's a typo above and you really meant users/assign,
and also assume you've executed qmail-newu to update users/cdb from
users/assign.
The virtualdomains file will change r [at] example to payal-r [at] example
So now it's time to parse the users/assign entry, and it's easy to
get burned here. Especially when you have something in the last
field like you do. That situation is not one of the examples in the
manpage, so without careful parsing, the solution isn't obvious.
(It's happened to me).
>+payal-:payal:1003:1003:/home/payal::test:
From the manpage
=local:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:ext:
Here local is an address; user, uid, and gid are the account name, uid,
and gid of the user in charge of local; and messages to local will be
controlled by homedir/.qmaildashext.
A wildcard assignment is a line of the form
+loc:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:pre:
This assignment applies to any address beginning with loc, including
loc itself. It means the same as
=locext:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:preext:
for every string ext.
So, for payal-r [at] example
loc=payal-
ext=r
homedir=/home/payal
dash= <null>
pre=test
So for ext=r, your wildcard would be equivalent to
=payal-r:payal:1003:1003:/home/payal::testr
in the non-wildcard syntax, which parses to
dash=<null>
ext=testr
So homedir/.qmaildashext
becomes /home/payal/.qmailtestr
Probably not quite what you were expecting. You probably want to put
this in users/assign (and run qmail-newu):
+payal-:payal:1003:1003:/home/payal:-:test-:
I have lines like that in my users/assign file, and it took a while
to figure out that's what I needed.
Not quite obvious, but if you parse it, you'll see that it results in
looking for
/home/payal/.qmail-test-r (or /home/payal/.qmail-test-default).
I'm guessing that's what you were trying to accomplish.
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