On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:36:27PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
I'd assumed (well, such as I'd really considered it much) that this was a standard way of doing things (either documented or undocumented), but that is clearly a rash assumption. I've not had much experience of qmail, I did have an installation to work with once and found the bizarre way it stored its configuration files as multiple hidden . files in the /var directory structure (iirc) to be such an odd and annoying way of working that I never really considered it as an option for my own installations. A bit like Cyrus IMAP where it has its own way of configuring something (I really can't remember what now) that meant it wasn't suited to any form of local server based mail access - as an aside I see that this too uses the . separator for the folder hierarchy.
qmail stores only sysem-wide aliases as dot files, homed in
/var/qmail/alias, user-based aliases are in ~/.qmail-* -
everything else should be in /var/qmail/control as normal
non-dot files.
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