From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 18:19:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.one.net (mail2.one.net [206.112.192.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD6237BB64 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 18:19:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carleton@one.net) Received: from ztown2-2-53.adsl.one.net ([216.23.15.53] EHLO miltonstreet.com ident: IDENT-NOT-QUERIED [port 34822]) by mail2.one.net with ESMTP id <364507-31881>; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:19:26 -0400 Message-ID: <39823149.B98298A0@miltonstreet.com> From: Sam Carleton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: simply not understanding the qmail/fastforward documentation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:19:24 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was asking about this early this morning and it ended up I was simply not paying attention. I have a feeling this is the EXACT same case. This is what my eyes in in the fastforward documentation about aliases with qmail: ------------------------------------------------------------ --- Configuring qmail to use /etc/aliases To activate /etc/aliases, put this line into ~alias/.qmail-default: | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb If qmail is already running, make sure to chmod +t ~alias before you edit .qmail files in ~alias, and chmod -t ~alias after. ------------------------------------------------------------ where is this ~alias folder? It is my understanding that aliasing, or at least the /etc/aliases.cdb should be processed before the mail ever gets to a single user. It simply does not make sense to me that each user would have to have this .qmail-default file in his/her home directory. Could someone enlighten me? -- Sam Carleton Please stop by http://www.maineville.net and help my local police force! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message