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Tim · Guest

Hi all,

ok, is there a way to have a command in a .qmail file that simply
delivers the message back into the queue instead of a local delivery ?

The reason I ask this is that I have built a rcpt check system that
accepts the mail only if it finds the corresponding .qmail-user file.
But in this particular case, I want to use the smtproutes file to send
the mail elsewhere, so I would need to get this message in the queue.

Can you use the |preline to pipe it to qmail-inject ? or would that
create a loop ?

qmail-remote is the one that looks into the smtproutes file, and it will
use those configurations before it would use the local stuff, right ?

I guess I need a way to tell the system that this is a remote address
from within the .qmail file...

Is that possible ?

Tim.

Charles · Guest

Tim Traver <tt-list@simplenet.com> wrote:
>
> ok, is there a way to have a command in a .qmail file that simply
> delivers the message back into the queue instead of a local delivery ?

Yes; forwarding lines ("&...") do this, as does the forward command ("|forward
...").

> The reason I ask this is that I have built a rcpt check system that
> accepts the mail only if it finds the corresponding .qmail-user file.
> But in this particular case, I want to use the smtproutes file to send
> the mail elsewhere, so I would need to get this message in the queue.

Mail arrives for joe@..., is controlled by ~joe/.qmail. In that file:

|sam@otherhost.example.org

Would then deliver the message to another host. You could have an smtproutes
entry for "otherhost.example.org" if you wanted.

> Can you use the |preline to pipe it to qmail-inject ? or would that
> create a loop ?

That's what "&" and "forward" are for -- no need to re-process the message
content, as qmail-inject does.

You could create a loop if you're trying to forward to the same address, i.e.,
the one doing the forwarding.

> qmail-remote is the one that looks into the smtproutes file, and it will
> use those configurations before it would use the local stuff, right ?

qmail-remote isn't involved in "local stuff". Either a message delivery is
local/virtual, or it's remote.

Charles

Tim. · Guest

Charles,

thanks for answering...

Charles Cazabon wrote:
Tim Traver <tt-list@simplenet.com> wrote:

ok, is there a way to have a command in a .qmail file that simply
delivers the message back into the queue instead of a local delivery ?

Yes; forwarding lines ("&...") do this, as does the forward command ("|forward
...").

yes, I know how to use the regular forwarding commands to forward the message to a particular address.

I guess what I forgot to say was that I would be using this in a .qmail-default file, so I would not know the particular user name that it was being delivered for.

So what I want to happen is this :

Mail arrives for joe@domain.com. That is controlled by /var/qmail/domains/domain.com/.qmail-default (by a users file config). I want to be able to put something in that .qmail-default file that tells it that it is going to be a remote delivery, so it puts it in the queue, and then qmail-remote uses the smtproutes to deliver that message to another specific mail server.

Tim.

Charles · Guest

Tim Traver <tt-list@simplenet.com> wrote:
>
> thanks for answering...

You're welcome.

> I guess what I forgot to say was that I would be using this in a
> .qmail-default file, so I would not know the particular user name that
> it was being delivered for.
>
> So what I want to happen is this :
>
> Mail arrives for joe@domain.com. That is controlled by
> /var/qmail/domains/domain.com/.qmail-default (by a users file config). I
> want to be able to put something in that .qmail-default file that tells
> it that it is going to be a remote delivery, so it puts it in the queue,
> and then qmail-remote uses the smtproutes to deliver that message to
> another specific mail server.

In /var/qmaildomains/domain.com/.qmail-default:

|forward "$DEFAULT"@otherdomain.example.org

In /var/qmail/control/smtproutes:

otherdomain.example.org:1.2.3.4

If this isn't what you're asking for, then you're probably asking a variant of
the "How do I make qmail treat a domain as local, so I can pass it through
.qmail, and then treat the /same/ domain as remote, so it'll deliver the
messages elsewhere?" question. The answer to that is: you don't. If you must
do this, you can do it with multiple qmail installs on the same machine -- see
the list archives for much discussion of how and why.

Charles