1 qmail lets each user control all addresses of the form user-anything.

     2 Addresses that don't start with a username are controlled by a special

     3 user, alias. Delivery instructions for foo go into ~alias/.qmail-foo;

     4 delivery instructions for user-foo go into ~user/.qmail-foo. See

     5 dot-qmail.0 for the full story.

     6 

     7 qmail doesn't have any built-in support for /etc/aliases. If you have a

     8 big /etc/aliases and you'd like to keep it, install the fastforward

     9 package, available separately. /etc/aliases should already include the

    10 aliases discussed below---Postmaster, MAILER-DAEMON, and root.

    11 

    12 If you don't have a big /etc/aliases, you'll find it easier to use

    13 qmail's native alias mechanism. Here's a checklist of aliases you should

    14 set up right now.

    15 

    16 * Postmaster. You're not an Internet citizen if this address doesn't

    17 work. Simply touch (and chmod 644) ~alias/.qmail-postmaster; any mail

    18 for Postmaster will be delivered to ~alias/Mailbox.

    19 

    20 * MAILER-DAEMON. Not required, but users sometimes respond to bounce

    21 messages. Touch (and chmod 644) ~alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon.

    22 

    23 * root. Under qmail, root never receives mail. Your system may generate

    24 mail messages to root every night; if you don't have an alias for root,

    25 those messages will bounce. (They'll end up double-bouncing to the

    26 postmaster.) Set up an alias for root in ~alias/.qmail-root. .qmail

    27 files are similar to .forward files, but beware that they are strictly

    28 line-oriented---see dot-qmail.0 for details.

    29 

    30 * Other non-user accounts. Under qmail, non-user accounts don't get

    31 mail; ``user'' means a non-root account that owns ~account. Set up

    32 aliases for any non-user accounts that normally receive mail.

    33 

    34 Note that special accounts such as ftp, www, and uucp should always have

    35 home directories owned by root.

    36 

    37 * Default. If you want, you can touch ~alias/.qmail-default to catch

    38 everything else. Beware: this will also catch typos and other addresses

    39 that should probably be bounced instead. It won't catch addresses that

    40 start with a user name---the user can set up his own ~/.qmail-default.