From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 19:30: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diskfarm.firehouse.net (rdu25-12-043.nc.rr.com [24.25.12.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A927637BA66 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:29:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@diskfarm.firehouse.net) Received: (from abc@localhost) by diskfarm.firehouse.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA31034; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:33:52 GMT (envelope-from abc) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:33:52 +0000 From: Alan Clegg To: Sam Carleton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: simply not understanding the qmail/fastforward documentation Message-ID: <20000728223352.L25111@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Clegg , Sam Carleton , FreeBSD Questions References: <39823149.B98298A0@miltonstreet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39823149.B98298A0@miltonstreet.com>; from scarleton@miltonstreet.com on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:19:24PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Out of the ether, Sam Carleton spewed forth the following bitstream: > 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? You really need to read *ALL* of the qmail documentation. This is one bitch I have about ports.. you don't have to read, you just say "make". Now, having said that, you need to think again what ~alias means. One of the steps in the port 'make install' is to add a set of qmail users to your system.. what might one of them be? Bingo! "alias". Look for that user and find it's home DIRECTORY (ain't no "folders" on a UNIX system). As for .qmail-default in each users's home directory, please read the qmail documentation. AlanC {who's boss told him not to post things like this from his work address. 8-} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message