Qmail Alias with period

[infinite_root]

Hi gurus out there,

I just wonder how could i make a qmail alias having a period. I used the example below:

jay.manalo@domain.com with a username "jay" on my RH9.0 running qmail-1.03.

Any help will be very much appreciated.

TIA

[datamike]

I'm not sure why you need to alias that name but what I would do it just use virtual hosts. I run a Qmail-1.03 server with about 30 diff domains. Set your /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains file to look like this.

user@domain.com:unixname

jay.mandal@domain.com:jay



I wrote this scripts, very cheasy but it works for me. The server is Solaris 9 so it differs a bit.

echo "Please enter the new qmail username.";
read NAME;
useradd -m $NAME;
passwd $NAME;
echo "$NAME has been added as a UNIX user.";
sleep 1;
echo "Adding qmail Maildir to $NAME.";
/usr/local/src/qmail-1.03/maildirmake /export/home/$NAME/Maildir;
sleep 1;
cp /qmail/.qmail-default /export/home/$NAME
echo "Copied .qmail-default to $NAME's home directory.";
sleep 1;
echo "Changing ownership of $NAME's files to $NAME.";
chown $NAME /export/home/$NAME
chown $NAME /export/home/$NAME/*
chown $NAME /export/home/$NAME/Maildir/*
chown $NAME /export/home/$NAME/.qmail-default
sleep 1;
/qmail/qmailuseradd
echo "$NAME has been added to the qmail database.";
qmailctl reload

[praetorian]

Just create a file like this.

.qmail-jay:manalo with "jay" inside.

HTH (Hope This Helps)

[infinite_root]

[quote author=datamike link=board=4;threadid=8438;start=0#msg76838 date=1074178678]
I'm not sure why you need to alias that name but what I would do it just use virtual hosts. I run a Qmail-1.03 server with about 30 diff domains. Set your /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains file to look like this.

user@domain.com:unixname

jay.mandal@domain.com:jay

[/quote]

Should this entry on virtualdomain require fastforward to be installed?

Thanks