From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 29 5:52:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oak.drexeltech.com (oak.drexeltech.com [64.39.31.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7892737B6AD for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 05:52:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Received: from sporto.johnturner.com (w220.z208176108.det-mi.dsl.cnc.net [208.176.108.220]) by oak.drexeltech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA71712; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 07:58:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000729084838.00a90180@mail.johnturner.com> X-Sender: jturner@mail.johnturner.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 08:52:04 -0400 To: Sam Carleton , FreeBSD Questions From: John Turner Subject: Re: simply not understanding the qmail/fastforward documentation In-Reply-To: <39823149.B98298A0@miltonstreet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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! > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message