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