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1 | You can set up qmail to use the same local delivery agent as sendmail, |
| 2 | through a mechanism called qsmhook. This file says how. | |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | Before you do this, may I ask why? If you simply don't want the hassle | |
| 5 | of moving user mailboxes from /usr/spool/mail to ~, please reconsider--- | |
| 6 | /usr/spool/mail has always been a big security problem. See, for | |
| 7 | example, CERT advisory 95:02. | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | If you're trying to preserve /etc/aliases and ~user/.forward, you're | |
| 10 | looking the wrong way---those are handled by sendmail internally, not by | |
| 11 | the local delivery agent. You can use your old /etc/aliases with qmail | |
| 12 | by installing the qmsmac package. | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | Perhaps you've set up an advanced agent like procmail. But most people | |
| 15 | use procmail for nothing more than sorting mail into several mailboxes; | |
| 16 | and that's much easier with qmail's local forwarding mechanism, which | |
| 17 | gives each user control over user-anything. If you have a few users who | |
| 18 | really do need procmail, they can easily run procmail from their own | |
| 19 | .qmail files. | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | Do you still want to set up qsmhook? Send me some e-mail and let me know | |
| 22 | why. Perhaps I can provide something for you in a future qmail release. | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | Here's what to do. First, tack ``:alias'' onto the end of each address | |
| 25 | in /var/qmail/control/locals, and put the results into | |
| 26 | /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains. For example, if control/locals has | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | localhost | |
| 29 | silverton.berkeley.edu | |
| 30 | ||
| 31 | then control/virtualdomains should now have (without extra spaces) | |
| 32 | ||
| 33 | localhost:alias | |
| 34 | silverton.berkeley.edu:alias | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | Second, cp /dev/null control/locals. | |
| 37 | ||
| 38 | Third, put a line into ~alias/.qmail-default, based on sendmail's Mlocal | |
| 39 | line. For example, if sendmail.cf has | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=lsDFMPrmn, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | then ~alias/.qmail-default should have | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | |qsmhook -x alias- -lsDFMPmn /bin/mail -r %g -d %u | |
| 46 | ||
| 47 | As another example, if sendmail.cf has | |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | Mlocal, P=/usr/lib/mail.local, F=flsSDFMmnP, S=10, R=20, A=mail.local -d $u | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | then ~alias/.qmail-default should have | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | |qsmhook -x alias- -lsDFMmnP /usr/lib/mail.local -f %g -d %u |