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In <5vn22v$5hl@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, paul@xenu.ee.mu.oz.au (Paul Dwerryhouse) writes:
>rjc@soopy.virtual.net.au (Russell Coker) writes:
>
>>>Take a typical family with one ISP, and one account, username of
>>>family@fake.isp but with several email aliases - eg dad@fake.isp,
>>>mum@fake.isp etc... Mail is sent to dad, mum, and so on, but ultimately
>>>it all ends up in the one file - /var/spool/mail/family.
>
>>   If you use Qmail as your mailer then you can do the following:
>>The following line in /etc/qmail/virtualdomains will direct mail for user@fake.isp to
>>family-user@localhost:
>>fake.isp: family
>
>I'd imagine it'd be a touch easier to just use procmail, given that most
>people still run sendmail [and all three main Linux distributions still
>supply it as the default]  ;)

   It may be easier to do that, however when you consider the range of things that
a typical small ISP will want to do with mail then qmail will fit the bill better.
Changing to qmail isn't that hard to do (done it to 3 sites so far including my home
server) and the local admins of 2 of them have found it very easy to do ongoing
maintenance of qmail.
   Qmail is also more secure than Sendmail, it's considerably faster, and the base
package has many functions that Sendmail won't do without considerable
administration effort.

>Something like the following in .procmailrc would probably do:
>
>:0
>* ^(To|Cc).*(mum@fake.isp)
>$HOME/mum
>
>:0
>* ^(To|Cc).*(dad@fake.isp)
>$HOME/dad

   One of the reasons I changed from Sendmail was to avoid having to use cryptic
config files such as the above.  Also that script appears not to have any way of
sorting out envelope To addresses vs the To: field in the message header.  What
happens when mum@fake.isp and dad@fake.isp subscribe to a mailing list but
little-johnney@fake.isp doesn't?  How will you handle that?


Russell Coker