[qmailadmin-devel] alias/valias recap

[Benjamin T. <bto...@so...>]

Since I got behind, here's what I think is the recap of the conversation,
for neatness and clarity, if not for my own sanity:

-Any use of /Maildir/, whether it be in .qmail or valias, will result in
bypassing other .qmail directives, such as for .qmail-default or for .qmail
user files.  This is a Bad Thing (tm) since it means messages would bypass
spam filtering, etc.  Thus, the *best* way to do "aliases" is by doing
everything as an &us...@do... forward, which then causes the message to
be re-injected, and thus processed correctly.
-QA needs to be aware and provide support for both .qmail (cdb) and valias
(vmysql) configurations, probably by default.  It will probably be necessary
to have configure flag(s) to determine which behaviour should be default
(???), though I would imagine that if vpopmail is using a sql back end, then
valias should be the default.
-There is a tool, vcalias, that can convert from .qmail aliases to valias
aliases.
-My personal thought: if QA defaults to writing valias format, then it
should also auto-detect .qmail aliases and either automagically convert it
to valias, or at least prompt the admin to convert to the new format.

If I missed any of the high points, please add on.  If there's consensus, it
should be straight-forward adding these to a future todo list, such as for
QA 1.1.

cheers,

-ben

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Benjamin Tomhave, CISSP
Senior Systems Engineer
bto...@so...
Sofast Communications      www.sofast.net