rcpthosts

Hello all!

I've been reading thru the manpages of qmail, trying to figure out how
i can add accounts to qmail itself, but keep them inactive until i
decide to activate them.

The problem is that the client that i want todo this for uses smtp on
the same box, so the problem that keeps re-occuring is that whenever i
add their new accounts qmail thinks the domain is hosted locally, and
will store the mail locally aswell, so what I'm trying to achieve is to
get qmail to read the MX-records for the domain instead of it's own
configurations.

>From what i've managed to gather i'll need to erase the domain from
rcpthosts, virtualdomains and locals, but seeing as this is a
production-server that's hsting a few thousand mailaccounts im afraid
to make this change without verification, so please correct me if I'm
wrong in my above conclusions.

/Eddie

"Eddie Adlfs" <tsmayhem@gmail.com> writes:

> I've been reading thru the manpages of qmail, trying to figure out how
> i can add accounts to qmail itself, but keep them inactive until i
> decide to activate them.
>
> The problem is that the client that i want todo this for uses smtp on
> the same box, so the problem that keeps re-occuring is that whenever i
> add their new accounts qmail thinks the domain is hosted locally, and
> will store the mail locally aswell, so what I'm trying to achieve is to
> get qmail to read the MX-records for the domain instead of it's own
> configurations.
>
> From what i've managed to gather i'll need to erase the domain from
> rcpthosts, virtualdomains and locals, but seeing as this is a
> production-server that's hsting a few thousand mailaccounts im afraid
> to make this change without verification, so please correct me if I'm
> wrong in my above conclusions.

It's not clear to me what you're trying to accomplish. Are the
accounts you're adding in domains that you already host? Are the local
or virtual? Maybe a detailed example would help.

--
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.

Well, we solved it the hard way, client's kinda pissy, but lack of info
from their side.. heh...

Anyway, they had their real MX-pointer at another site, they just used
us from smtp, so they're domain wasn't with us at the time, nor the
MX-records, so basically i wanted to add their accounts before theyre
MX-records was pointed to us, the problem was that qmail kept thinking
the domain was hosted locally.

So i wanted Qmail to read the MX-records instead of it's own
configuration for their specific domain...