Re: [EXIM] dot-qmail director

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Author: Mark Baker
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To: Jason Gunthorpe, exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] dot-qmail director
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 05:33:27PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> So, I am wondering what it would take to get a qmail_file director in
> exim?


Write one?

> We have discussed it and we feel that the .forward file scheme would
> result in a loss of functionality that several of the developers use so we
> wish to preserve .qmail support.


.forward files, at least as implemented by exim, give significantly more
functionality than .qmail does. As far as I can see even traditional
sendmail-style .forward files don't give any less functionality unless you
want to use multiple mailboxes.

A quick check shows only 19 accounts on master having files of the form
.qmail-*, and some of them are something like .qmail-old which is presumably
a backup rather than a mailbox name. I don't think forcing users to migrate
to .forward files would be a problem as the number needing manual
conversion is fairly small.

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