[UFO Chicago] qmail configuration

[Nate Riffe]

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On 20 Nov 2001, Ian Bicking wrote:

> For all its (many) flaws, combined with vmailmgr
> (http://www.vmailmgr.org) qmail was by far the easiest/most robust mail
> system for name-based virtual domains that I could find.  Postfix didn't
> have the supporting programs, community, or documentation.

Dude!  It took me five minutes to setup a virtual domain!  I got your 
community right here!

The trick:

In main.cf:
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virtual_maps = hash:some_db_file
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In some_db_file:
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# Tell postfix it's OK to accept mail for your.virtual.domain
your.virtual.domain	OK
# Tell postfix where to forward mail addressed to user@your.virtual.domain
user@your.virtual.domain	realuseronthemailhost
# Tell postfix where to forward mail addressed to luser@your.virtual.domain
luser@your.virtual.domain	someguy@some.other.domain
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After editing some_db_file run this:

root@yourmx# postmap some_db_file

This will produce the file some_db_file.db, which postfix will then.

DNS setup is the same regardless of mailer daemon.

- -Nate

> I never even
> considered sendmail, exim was possible, and I wasn't super-concerned
> about security, but it just didn't have all the pieces.  
> 
> Of course, I still have more work to do with vmailmgr, since after going
> through much much pain with that (also due to stupid qmail configuration
> problems) I stopped once it basically worked.
> 
> On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 17:02, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> > begin  Ian Bicking  quotation:
> > > Does anyone here use qmail?  
> > 
> > 	If so, you all have my sympathy.
> > 
> > -- 
> > INFORMATION GLADLY GIVEN BUT SAFETY REQUIRES AVOIDING UNNECESSARY CONVERSATION
> >  
> > 	01234567 <- The amazing* indent-o-meter! 
> >         ^	    (*: Indent-o-meter may not actually amaze.)
> > 
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