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mail at oliwel

Nov 2, 2010, 2:20 AM

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Problem when alias contains a hyphen and is similar to basename

Hi Friends,

today a customer brought a nice issue to my attention :)

I have a postbox called john.smith-meiers [at] domain
I created an alias line
john.smith [at] domain > john.smith-meiers [at] domain

Immediately mails to both addresses start looping. As far as I
understand the problem the part right of the hyphen is stripped of and
so both address look the same. I dont know exactly it this is a feature
of qmail itself or one of the patches. I am running a netqmail/vpoopmail
toaster based on the gentoo patches, which includes the BigTODo, TLS and
qmail-spp.

I am overseeing something or is this a kind of conceptual problem?

Oliver
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qmail-09 at jeremykister

Nov 2, 2010, 7:05 AM

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Re: Problem when alias contains a hyphen and is similar to basename [In reply to]

On 11/2/2010 5:20 AM, Oliver Welter wrote:
> I have a postbox called john.smith-meiers [at] domain
> I created an alias line
> john.smith [at] domain> john.smith-meiers [at] domain
>
> Immediately mails to both addresses start looping. As far as I

is there a ~vpopmail/domains/example.com/john.smith-meiers/.qmail file ?

or a ~vpopmail/domains/example.com/.qmail-john.smith-meiers ?

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johnl at iecc

Nov 2, 2010, 8:25 AM

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Re: Problem when alias contains a hyphen and is similar to basename [In reply to]

In article <4CCFD7F0.1030308 [at] oliwel> you write:
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>
>Hi Friends,
>
>today a customer brought a nice issue to my attention :)
>
>I have a postbox called john.smith-meiers [at] domain
>I created an alias line
>john.smith [at] domain > john.smith-meiers [at] domain

Have you taken into account that a .qmail file for john.smith is
called .qmail-john:smith, not .qmail-john.smith ?

Even though this is not the vpopmail list, I took a quick look at
the vpopmail source and it does the same colon substitution.

R's,
John

scott.brynen at visioncritical

Nov 2, 2010, 8:30 AM

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RE: Problem when alias contains a hyphen and is similar to basename [In reply to]

Qmail converts . to : when looking for .qmail files.
You'd want /var/alias/.qmail-john:smith-meiers

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Kister [mailto:qmail-09 [at] jeremykister]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 7:05 AM
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Subject: Re: Problem when alias contains a hyphen and is similar to basename

On 11/2/2010 5:20 AM, Oliver Welter wrote:
> I have a postbox called john.smith-meiers [at] domain
> I created an alias line
> john.smith [at] domain> john.smith-meiers [at] domain
>
> Immediately mails to both addresses start looping. As far as I

is there a ~vpopmail/domains/example.com/john.smith-meiers/.qmail file ?

or a ~vpopmail/domains/example.com/.qmail-john.smith-meiers ?

--

Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net./

mail at oliwel

Nov 2, 2010, 12:45 PM

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Re: Problem when alias contains a hyphen and is similar to basename [In reply to]

On 02.11.2010 15:05, Jeremy Kister wrote:
> On 11/2/2010 5:20 AM, Oliver Welter wrote:
>> I have a postbox called john.smith-meiers [at] domain
>> I created an alias line
>> john.smith [at] domain> john.smith-meiers [at] domain
>>
>> Immediately mails to both addresses start looping. As far as I
>
> is there a ~vpopmail/domains/example.com/john.smith-meiers/.qmail file ?
>
> or a ~vpopmail/domains/example.com/.qmail-john.smith-meiers ?
>
Neither one - I forgot to mention that I am using vpopmail-mysql backend
and I have all the names in the database "as is", so no substitution or
anything else.
The problem is not the Dot, but the hyphen...

Oliver
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