Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 08:52:04 -0400 From: John Turner <john@drexeltech.com> To: Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: simply not understanding the qmail/fastforward documentation Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20000729084838.00a90180@mail.johnturner.com> In-Reply-To: <39823149.B98298A0@miltonstreet.com>
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The tilde ('~') equals "HOME DIRECTORY". So ~alias means "the HOME
DIRECTORY of the user called alias".
During the install, qmail should have built a user called alias. qmail
also adds several more qmail-specific users to your system. I forget what
they are exactly, its been awhile since I built my last qmail
system. Anyway, these separate users is one of the (many) things qmail
uses to be significantly more secure than sendmail.
HTH
- John
At 09:19 PM 7/28/00, Sam Carleton wrote:
>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!
>
>
>
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