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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