fastforward or ~alias/.qmail-

Hi all,

I am converting a "sendmail" server to qmail, this server receives
mails from the internet and has an /etc/aliases file already. I have a
few questions:

1 - in the /etc/aliases file I have a few entries like the following:
info : |"/data/bin/MailClient -b info || exit 75"
which I believe does not work with fastforward. Is that correct?
If yes, would ~alias/qmail-info with |"/data/bin/MailClient -b info ||
exit 75" in it work?
If no, how else can I do this?

2 - Is ~alias/qmail-user lookup faster that fastforward's
/etc/aliases or there is no difference in performance.

3- I can probably write a script to convert sendmail's /etc/aliases
file to dot-qmail files but is there a utility out there to do it?

Thanks,
Vahid.

Vahid moghaddasi wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am converting a "sendmail" server to qmail, this server receives
> mails from the internet and has an /etc/aliases file already. I have a
> few questions:
>
> 1 - in the /etc/aliases file I have a few entries like the following:
> info : |"/data/bin/MailClient -b info || exit 75"
> which I believe does not work with fastforward. Is that correct?
> If yes, would ~alias/qmail-info with |"/data/bin/MailClient -b info ||
> exit 75" in it work?
> If no, how else can I do this?
>
> 2 - Is ~alias/qmail-user lookup faster that fastforward's
> /etc/aliases or there is no difference in performance.
>
> 3- I can probably write a script to convert sendmail's /etc/aliases
> file to dot-qmail files but is there a utility out there to do it?
>
> Thanks,
> Vahid.
>

Vahid,

fastforward is great and flexible. Why write a script when newaliases
already exists with fast forward.

Using fastforward you can bypass the need for dot-qmail files.



AK

AK wrote:

>
> fastforward is great and flexible. Why write a script when newaliases
> already exists with fast forward.
>
> Using fastforward you can bypass the need for dot-qmail files.
Thanks AK but I thought that fastforward does not support the above
format in the aliases, e.g. having 'user: |"/bin/do.pl"' in the "|"
outside the quotations. I am not sure if I can change the way
developers have in the aliases file w/o breaking anything.
Vahid.

Vahid moghaddasi wrote:

>
> AK wrote:
>
>
>>fastforward is great and flexible. Why write a script when newaliases
>>already exists with fast forward.
>>
>>Using fastforward you can bypass the need for dot-qmail files.
>
> Thanks AK but I thought that fastforward does not support the above
> format in the aliases, e.g. having 'user: |"/bin/do.pl"' in the "|"
> outside the quotations. I am not sure if I can change the way
> developers have in the aliases file w/o breaking anything.
> Vahid.
>

Vahid,

Then, I do not understand what you are trying to do.

What does do.pl do?

AK

AK wrote:
>
> Then, I do not understand what you are trying to do.
>
> What does do.pl do?
I am not sure what exactly the programs do as they are talking in some
protocol with mainframe once that user receives an e-mail. They are all
Solaris compiled binary.
In sendmail's /etc/aliases, we have:
info : |"/data/bin/MailClient -b info || exit 75"
If a mail is sent to info, the program "MailClient" will process
and send it to mainframe. Can I use the same exact /etc/aliases with
fastforward or I need to take the double quotes out?
I read it somewhere that '|"process" ,(having a pipe before the
double quote) does not work in fastforward.

Thanks and sorry for the confusion.
Vahid.

"Vahid moghaddasi" <vahid.moghaddasi@gmail.com> writes:

> In sendmail's /etc/aliases, we have:
> info : |"/data/bin/MailClient -b info || exit 75"
> If a mail is sent to info, the program "MailClient" will process
> and send it to mainframe. Can I use the same exact /etc/aliases with
> fastforward or I need to take the double quotes out?
> I read it somewhere that '|"process" ,(having a pipe before the
> double quote) does not work in fastforward.

From the fastforward newaliases man page:

COMPATIBILITY WARNING: newaliases does not allow a verti
cal bar before double quotes.

Also noted on pg 248 of _The qmail Handbook_.

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.

Dave Sill wrote:
>
> From the fastforward newaliases man page:
>
> COMPATIBILITY WARNING: newaliases does not allow a verti
> cal bar before double quotes.
>
> Also noted on pg 248 of _The qmail Handbook_.
Yes, that is where I saw it.
Would it be OK to put:
info : |"/data/bin/MailClient -b info || exit 75"
in ~alias/.qmail-info file?
Thanks,
Vahid.

"Vahid moghaddasi" <vahid.moghaddasi@gmail.com> writes:

> Dave Sill wrote:
>>
>> From the fastforward newaliases man page:
>>
>> COMPATIBILITY WARNING: newaliases does not allow a verti
>> cal bar before double quotes.
>>
>> Also noted on pg 248 of _The qmail Handbook_.
>
> Yes, that is where I saw it.
>
> Would it be OK to put:
> info : |"/data/bin/MailClient -b info || exit 75"
> in ~alias/.qmail-info file?

Sure, but it probably won't do what you want it to do. It's going to
look for a file named "/data/bin/MailClient -b info || exit 75" and
try to run it, not pass that string to the shell.

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.

Dave Sill wrote:
> Sure, but it probably won't do what you want it to do. It's going to
> look for a file named "/data/bin/MailClient -b info || exit 75" and
> try to run it, not pass that string to the shell.
>
Is there a way to run the following in dot-qmail?
/data/bin/MailClient -b info || exit 75
Would this work:
| /data/bin/MailClient -b info || exit 75
or
"| /data/bin/MailClient -b info || exit 75"
Thanks for the help.
Vahid.

"Vahid moghaddasi" <vahid.moghaddasi@gmail.com> writes:

> Would this work:
> | /data/bin/MailClient -b info || exit 75

Lose the first space and it'll work.

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.