Using qmail extension addresses with vpopmail

11 Mar 2004 10:53 qmail

Extension addresses

Quite often, I’ll hand out a qmail extension address (i.e. roger-foo@domain.com) so that I can more easily filter email received to this account. This is useful. According to the vpopmail documentation, the --enable-qmail-ext switch to configure is supposed to turn this on. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to do anything. This is with vpopmail-5.4.0. I’m not entirely sure what it’s supposed to, but it doesn’t make extension addresses work.

The fix is relatively simple (although not particularly nice): Modify the vadduser replacement script, given previously, so that it creates a .qmail-default file for the user:

#!/bin/sh

/home/vpopmail/bin/vadduser.real $1 $2

# Set up the IMAPdir stuff for BincIMAP...
VDIR=`/home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d $1`

mkdir -p $VDIR/IMAPdir
chown vpopmail.vchkpw $VDIR/IMAPdir
chmod 2700 $VDIR/IMAPdir
ln -s ../Maildir $VDIR/IMAPdir/INBOX

# Set up the .qmail-default file, so that extension addresses work correctly...
VUSER=`/home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -n $1`
echo "./$VUSER/Maildir/" > $VDIR/../.qmail-$VUSER-default

There might be a better fix, but I’ve not found it yet.