eliminating virtual account

I read the FAQ and saw 3.2 about how to setup a virtual domain:

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3.2. How do I set up a virtual domain? I'd like any mail for
nowhere.mil, including root@nowhere.mil and postmaster@nowhere.mil and
so on, to be delivered to Bob. I've set up the MX already.

Answer: Put

nowhere.mil:bob

into control/virtualdomains. Add nowhere.mil to control/rcpthosts. If
qmail-send is running, give it a HUP (or do svc -h /var/run/qmail if
qmail is supervised).
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my b0b@nowhere.mil is getting bombarded with spam, but I don't use
that email address anymore. I need to keep the UNIX account 'bob',
but would like to change the email address to something else, say
bobsmith@nowhere.mil and have all the mail for bob@nowhere.mil bounce.
How do I go about doing that?

Sam

Dave Sill <MaxFreedom@sws5.ctd.ornl.gov> wrote in message news:<wx0d6g0hyyk.fsf@sws5.ornl.gov>...
> scarleton-nospam@miltonstreet.com (Sam Carleton) writes:
>
> > my b0b@nowhere.mil is getting bombarded with spam, but I don't use
> > that email address anymore. I need to keep the UNIX account 'bob',
> > but would like to change the email address to something else, say
> > bobsmith@nowhere.mil and have all the mail for bob@nowhere.mil bounce.
> > How do I go about doing that?
>
> Assuming you have:
>
> nowhere.mil:bob
>
> in virtualdomains, mail to bob@nowhere.mil is handled by
> ~bob/.qmail-bob-bob.

Well, I got it working, but it was a bit different from what you said.
I do have nowhere.mil:bob in the virtualdomains. But it seems that
..qmail-bob-bob in bob's home directory is not what is handling things
for bob@nowhere.mil. It is .qmail-bob.

In the same respect, mike@nowhere.mil is being handled by
~bob/.qmail-mike. Do I have something configured wrong?

Sam

scarleton-nospam@miltonstreet.com (Sam Carleton) writes:

> Dave Sill <MaxFreedom@sws5.ctd.ornl.gov> wrote in message news:<wx0d6g0hyyk.fsf@sws5.ornl.gov>...
>> scarleton-nospam@miltonstreet.com (Sam Carleton) writes:
>>
>> > my b0b@nowhere.mil is getting bombarded with spam, but I don't use
>> > that email address anymore. I need to keep the UNIX account 'bob',
>> > but would like to change the email address to something else, say
>> > bobsmith@nowhere.mil and have all the mail for bob@nowhere.mil bounce.
>> > How do I go about doing that?
>>
>> Assuming you have:
>>
>> nowhere.mil:bob
>>
>> in virtualdomains, mail to bob@nowhere.mil is handled by
>> ~bob/.qmail-bob-bob.
>
> Well, I got it working, but it was a bit different from what you said.
> I do have nowhere.mil:bob in the virtualdomains. But it seems that
> .qmail-bob-bob in bob's home directory is not what is handling things
> for bob@nowhere.mil. It is .qmail-bob.
>
> In the same respect, mike@nowhere.mil is being handled by
> ~bob/.qmail-mike. Do I have something configured wrong?

What I described is the default behavior of qmail. If you're using
qmail-users (/var/qmail/users/assign) it's possible to get the
behavior you describe.

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