[rt-devel] qmail finally fully supported with any arbitrary queue address!

[Joseph Gooch]

The docs don't have all possible configurations of qmail.  For instance, for
my work, i treat rt.cliu.org as a virtual domain, and in
/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains:
rt.cliu.org:rt
helpdesk.cliu.org:rt

And then in the rt home directory:
.qmail-default	mailgates to general queue
support		mailgates to support queue

Etc.  They can send to any address @rt.cliu.org and end up in the general
queue.

Pretty neat.  I praise RT's compartmentalized structure for allowing this to
work.

Joe Gooch
Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rt-devel-admin at lists.fsck.com
> [mailto:rt-devel-admin at lists.fsck.com]On Behalf Of Jay Kramer
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:39 PM
> To: rt-devel at lists.fsck.com
> Subject: [rt-devel] qmail finally fully supported with any arbitrary
> queue address!
>
>
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: 	Jay Kramer[SMTP:JKRAMER at DATATECHNIQUE.COM]
> > Sent: 	Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:38:51 PM
> > To: 	rt-devel at lists.fsck.com
> > Subject: 	[rt-devel] qmail finally fully supported with
> any arbitrary queue address!
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> >
>     I knew it had to be possible..  I upgraded our mailsystem
> to qmail and
> did not like the naming system that the install docs at
> helgrim said, so I
> configured qmail the 'right' way (heh).
>
> To setup RT with qmail with any arbitrary queue names you
> would want..  you
> need access to the 'assign' file in the users configuration
> folder of your
> qmail config (usually located in /var/qmail/users/assign)...
> The purpose of
> the assign paramater is to tell qmail what user a address
> should run as..
>
> The format for this file is:
> =(queue's email address):(rt's username):(rt's UID):(rt's
> GID):(rt's Home
> Directory)::(configfilename):
> <continue on with as many of these as needed, 1 per email address>
> .
>
> The queue's email address is self explanitory, you set one up fro each
> comment/reply address...
> The username is the username the rt bin is owned by..
> The rt UID is the UID of the rt user (can be had from /etc/passwd)
> The rt GID is the GID of the rt user (can be had from /etc/passwd too)
> The home directory is the place qmail will look for the
> .qmail files to be
> explained down below
> The configfilename is the name appended to the .qmail
> filename to get the
> filename for that queue
>
> ps, the last . line is QUITE important!  that is, a period on
> a line of its
> own, and then followed by a carriage return...
>
> The .qmail(configfilename) files....
>
> Now it is time to setup the files in rt's home directory..
>
> create a file .qmail(your configfilename paramater from the
> assign file)
> ex: .qmailsupport
>
> in this file, add the line |/var/rt/bin/rt-mailgate -q (your
> actual queue
> name) -a correspond
>
> This file is actually just like settign up an alias..
> Continue on from
> here...
>
> ps, my assign file looks like:
> =support-comment at help.mydomain.com:rtuser:1009:1009:/home/rtus
> er::supportcom
> ment:
> =support at help.mydomain.com:rtuser:1009:1009:/home/rtuser::support:
> =wichita-support-comment at help.mydomain.com:rtuser:1009:1009:/h
> ome/rtuser::wi
> chitasupportcomment:
> =wichita-support at help.mydomain.com:rtuser:1009:1009:/home/rtus
> er::wichitasup
> port:
> =kc-support-comment at help.mydomain.com:rtuser:1009:1009:/home/r
> tuser::kcsuppo
> rtcomment:
> =kc-support:rtuser at help.mydomain.com:1009:1009:/home/rtuser::k
> csupport:
> =test-support-comment:rtuser:1009:1009:/home/rtuser::testsuppo
> rtcomment:
> =test-support:rtuser:1009:1009:/home/rtuser::testsupport:
> .
>
> ps2... don't use special chars in the coinfigfilename part...
>  it doesn't
> work...