From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 08:30:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F0EA16A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:30:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.shagmail.com (mail.shagmail.com [64.200.129.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB93543D39 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:30:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rob@pulsetv.com) Received: (qmail 38961 invoked by uid 8785); 3 Mar 2004 16:33:31 -0000 Received: from rob@pulsetv.com by mail.shagmail.com by uid 8754 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.65. Clear:RC:1(64.200.129.156):. Processed in 0.021106 secs); 03 Mar 2004 16:33:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gluon) (64.200.129.156) by mail.shagmail.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2004 16:33:31 -0000 From: Rob McQuillen Organization: Pulse Direct, Inc. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:28:12 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403031028.12272.rob@pulsetv.com> Subject: Re: qmail revisited X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:30:42 -0000 On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:41 am, Brian H wrote: > sorry for bringing up qmail again. It's OT on freebsd-questions, so I'm replying privately... > I am able to get my mail sent to my user account henninb, but i can't > get mail for root or postmaaster. Have you read www.lifewithqmail.org? > I am trying to use qmail with the Maildir protocol. Maildir is not a protocol, but a different mail storage format (others are mbox and /var/spool/mail). > I read in the documentation that no mail can be sent to the root > account, but I thought it said you could have it sent there if you > like. On thing i noticed on my user account is that my ~/.qmail and > ~alias/qmail-henninb > file don't do anything either because when I remove them the mail > still gets delivered to > my Maildir. You can *send* mail to root, but it won't be delivered unless you arrange for an unprivileged user to pick it up. See below. > how can i get my ~/.qmail or ~alias/qmail-root file working for root > and postmaster? $ echo henninb > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root $ echo henninb > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster should suffice for you. You can safely remove henninb's $HOME/.qmail file- if it doesn't exist, mail is delivered to your Maildir (or whatever argument to qmail-start is in your startup scripts). hth, RTM