>>>>> "SM" == Stefan Morrell <stef@mort.level5.net> writes:
SM> The problem here is that having a .qmail-default file isn't enough.
That's odd. The qmail support was contributed and has worked fine for
other folks for some time now. Patches are of course welcome, but I don't
have the means to test them.
For the benefit of the folks on the mj2-dev list, where I'm CC'ing this,
I'll quote the rest of the message.
SM> In fact what is really needed is a .qmail file in ~alias for each and
SM> every address qmail creates, to pipe the mail back into mj_enqueue, as
SM> in the .qmail file created during install, or an entry in
SM> /var/qmail/users/assign (along with running qmail-newu to rebuild the
SM> cdb file and restarting the qmail queue daemons). I dunno how you might
SM> want to automate this, but it will need to likely run setuid root or
SM> possibly alias. Alternatively, the poor, long suffering sysadmin can
SM> create all the files by hand...
SM> Unless...
SM> The aforementioned sysadmin can create himself a subdomain specifically
SM> and only to handle mailing list traffic, in which case the whole thing
SM> becomes much simpler and more elegant. He simply adds MX records for
SM> the subdomain pointing at the canonical name of the qmail server and
SM> then adds a line into /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains of the form
SM> lists.mydomain.com:majordomo
SM> Which causes all email for lists.mydomain.com to be processed according
SM> to rules contained in .qmail files in majordomo's $HOME. Then he
SM> creates a .qmail-default file with the pipe to mj_enqueue so that all
SM> addresses on the lists subdomain are sent to the majordomo scripts,
SM> which then process the email as normal.
SM> My apologies if (as I suspect) I'm singing an old and weatherworn song,
SM> but the qmail documentation and configuration questions currently in
SM> the package aren't massively clear (so far at least), so I thought I'd
SM> throw my hat into the ring.
I have to say that this is the first time I've heard of problems like these
with qmail. I do know that other qmail users have been able to use the
software without problems, so I suspect that there's something beyond my
understanding at work here.
- J<
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