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You can set up qmail to use the same local delivery agent as sendmail,
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through a mechanism called qsmhook. This file says how.
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Before you do this, may I ask why? If you simply don't want the hassle
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of moving user mailboxes from /usr/spool/mail to ~, please reconsider---
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/usr/spool/mail has always been a big security problem. See, for
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example, CERT advisory 95:02.
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If you're trying to preserve /etc/aliases and ~user/.forward, you're
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looking the wrong way---those are handled by sendmail internally, not by
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the local delivery agent. You can use your old /etc/aliases with qmail
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by installing the qmsmac package.
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Perhaps you've set up an advanced agent like procmail. But most people
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use procmail for nothing more than sorting mail into several mailboxes;
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and that's much easier with qmail's local forwarding mechanism, which
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gives each user control over user-anything. If you have a few users who
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really do need procmail, they can easily run procmail from their own
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.qmail files.
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Do you still want to set up qsmhook? Send me some e-mail and let me know
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why. Perhaps I can provide something for you in a future qmail release.
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Here's what to do. First, tack ``:alias'' onto the end of each address
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in /var/qmail/control/locals, and put the results into
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/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains. For example, if control/locals has
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localhost
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silverton.berkeley.edu
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then control/virtualdomains should now have (without extra spaces)
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localhost:alias
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silverton.berkeley.edu:alias
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Second, cp /dev/null control/locals.
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Third, put a line into ~alias/.qmail-default, based on sendmail's Mlocal
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line. For example, if sendmail.cf has
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Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=lsDFMPrmn, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
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then ~alias/.qmail-default should have
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|qsmhook -x alias- -lsDFMPmn /bin/mail -r %g -d %u
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As another example, if sendmail.cf has
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Mlocal, P=/usr/lib/mail.local, F=flsSDFMmnP, S=10, R=20, A=mail.local -d $u
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then ~alias/.qmail-default should have
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|qsmhook -x alias- -lsDFMmnP /usr/lib/mail.local -f %g -d %u
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