Re: Qmail - any alternatives? (Was: Status of qmail?)

[Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>]

Okay, this looks cool.  But what about the qmail case where I have
something like .qmail-default in my home directory?  I want random
suffixes delivered to my main inbox.

Thanks

Jeff

On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 02:05:47PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com> writes:
> 
> > I currently run qmail, and due to its licensing problems I'd rather not
> > run it.  But is there another MTA that supports multiple user aliases
> > similar to the way qmail does?  I find it tremendously useful to be able
> > to have multiple jeff-xyz addresses for mailing list subscriptions and
> > so on.
> 
> Exim will, and it looks pretty easy to setup and flexible to use:
> 
> Multiple user mailboxes
> ***********************
> 
> The wildcard facility of the generic `prefix' and `suffix' options for
> directors allows you to configure Exim to permit users to make use of
> arbitrary local part prefixes or suffixes in any way they wish.  A
> director such as
> 
>      userforward:
>        driver = forwardfile
>        file = .forward
>        suffix = -*
>        suffix_optional
>        filter
> 
> runs a user's `.forward' file for all local parts of the form
> "username-*".  Within the filter file the user can distinguish
> different cases by testing the variable `$local_part_suffix'. For
> example:
> 
>      if $local_part_suffix contains -special then
>        save /home/$local_part/Mail/special
>      endif
> 
> If the filter file does not exist, or does not deal with such
> addresses, they fall through to subsequent directors, and, assuming no
> subsequent use of the `suffix' option is made, they presumably fail.
> Thus users have control over what suffixes are valid.
> 
> Alternatively, a suffix can be used to trigger the use of a different
> `.forward' file - which is the way a similar facility is implemented in
> another MTA:
> 
>      userforward:
>        driver = forwardfile
>        file = .forward${local_part_suffix}
>        suffix = -*
>        suffix_optional
>        filter
> 
> If there is no suffix, `.forward' is used; if the suffix is "-special",
> for example, then `.forward-special' is used. Once again, if the
> appropriate file
> 
> does not exist, or does not deal with the address, it is passed on to
> subsequent directors, which could, if required, look for an unqualified
> `.forward' file to use as a default.
> 
> -- 
> Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930


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