[nflug] Copy pop account email to another email address in QMAIL

[Darin Perusich]

why won't an alias work? if you have user1 and user2 with the alias 
shared at test.com assiciated with these users it should accomplish what 
you want. am i missing something in the translation of what you are 
trying to do.

speljamr at speljamr.com wrote:
> The .qmail file doesn't work. Everytime the message is delivered to the 
> pop account it is forwarded to the email address in the file. This ends 
> up creating an infinite loop and you get something that looks like a 
> mail bomb. I know because I tried this. I got 118 copies before I shut 
> it down.
> 
> However, I found a patch called qmail-tap at 
> http://www.inter7.com/qmailtap/qmail-tap.diff. It lets you define who to 
> copy the email to in a qmail control file.
> 
> Unfortunately after I recompiled qmail I now get the following error 
> message from the SMTP server, sending and receiving: Server replied: 451 
> Temporary local problem
> 
> I managed to track the problem to the following error in perl-scanner: 
> X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-1.25-st-qms Unable to open pipe to 
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Tim
> 
>  > speljamr at speljamr.com wrote:
>  >> Hello All,
>  >>
>  >> I am a recent user of Qmail and I have a problem I have been unable to
>  >> find an answer to yet. I thought some of the Qmail users out here might
>  >> be able to help.
>  >>
>  >> I need to have email delivered to a pop account get copied to another
>  >> email address as well. It needs to go in both places. An alias won't
>  >> work because the original recipient must be able to download their mail
>  >> from the original email address.
>  >>
>  >> In other words, test at test.com <mailto:test at test.com> gets an email
>  >> delivered to his/her Maildir and a copy of that email goes to
>  >> test2 at test.com.
>  >>
>  >> Does anyone have any idea how to accomplish this? I don't see any tools
>  >> for doing so in the default Qmail install. If it helps I am also using
>  >> vpopmail for the virtual domain handling.
>  >
>  > .qmail file is your answer.
>  >
>  > I'm not sure how vpopmail delivers to the virtual users as I use
>  > vmailmgr, but I'm sure it's pretty much the same. vmailmgr has a program
>  > that it uses to deliver to the virtual domains so you can setup a .qmail
>  > file to send the message all over the place then onto it's original
>  > destination.
>  >
>  > As per your example, my .qmail file would look like this :
>  >
>  > Filename : .qmail-test
>  > Contents :
>  > test2 at test.com
>  > |/usr/bin/vdeliver
>  >
>  > Look in the 'home' directory of the domain recieving all the mail for
>  > your domain, and you should see a .qmail-default file. Inside that file
>  > will be the instructions on how vpopmail delivers.
>  >
>  > --
>  > John C. Nichel IV
>  > Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek)
>  > Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo
>  > 716.856.9675
>  > jnichel at dotcomholdingsofbuffalo.com
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Darin Perusich
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Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com
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