From b732a73bc773789894466b0e5320b2f1fe42c7e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Denker Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 18:58:45 -0700 Subject: original, as downloaded from http://www.qmail.org/netqmail-1.06.tar.gz --- INSTALL.alias | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) create mode 100644 INSTALL.alias (limited to 'INSTALL.alias') diff --git a/INSTALL.alias b/INSTALL.alias new file mode 100644 index 0000000..672365a --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL.alias @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +qmail lets each user control all addresses of the form user-anything. +Addresses that don't start with a username are controlled by a special +user, alias. Delivery instructions for foo go into ~alias/.qmail-foo; +delivery instructions for user-foo go into ~user/.qmail-foo. See +dot-qmail.0 for the full story. + +qmail doesn't have any built-in support for /etc/aliases. If you have a +big /etc/aliases and you'd like to keep it, install the fastforward +package, available separately. /etc/aliases should already include the +aliases discussed below---Postmaster, MAILER-DAEMON, and root. + +If you don't have a big /etc/aliases, you'll find it easier to use +qmail's native alias mechanism. Here's a checklist of aliases you should +set up right now. + +* Postmaster. You're not an Internet citizen if this address doesn't +work. Simply touch (and chmod 644) ~alias/.qmail-postmaster; any mail +for Postmaster will be delivered to ~alias/Mailbox. + +* MAILER-DAEMON. Not required, but users sometimes respond to bounce +messages. Touch (and chmod 644) ~alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon. + +* root. Under qmail, root never receives mail. Your system may generate +mail messages to root every night; if you don't have an alias for root, +those messages will bounce. (They'll end up double-bouncing to the +postmaster.) Set up an alias for root in ~alias/.qmail-root. .qmail +files are similar to .forward files, but beware that they are strictly +line-oriented---see dot-qmail.0 for details. + +* Other non-user accounts. Under qmail, non-user accounts don't get +mail; ``user'' means a non-root account that owns ~account. Set up +aliases for any non-user accounts that normally receive mail. + +Note that special accounts such as ftp, www, and uucp should always have +home directories owned by root. + +* Default. If you want, you can touch ~alias/.qmail-default to catch +everything else. Beware: this will also catch typos and other addresses +that should probably be bounced instead. It won't catch addresses that +start with a user name---the user can set up his own ~/.qmail-default. -- cgit v1.2.3