qmail-newu(8) [osf1 man page]

qmail-newu(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     qmail-newu(8)

NAME

       qmail-newu - prepare address assignments for qmail-lspawn

SYNOPSIS

       qmail-newu

DESCRIPTION

       qmail-newu reads the assignments in /var/lib/qmail/users/assign and writes them into /var/lib/qmail/users/cdb in a binary format suited for
       quick access by qmail-lspawn.

       If there is a problem with users/assign, qmail-newu complains and leaves users/cdb alone.

       qmail-newu ensures that users/cdb is updated atomically, so qmail-lspawn never has to wait for qmail-newu to finish.   However,	qmail-newu
       makes no attempt to protect against two simultaneous updates of users/cdb.

       The binary users/cdb format is portable across machines.

SEE ALSO

       qmail-users(5), qmail-lspawn(8), qmail-pw2u(8)

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qmail-users(5)							File Formats Manual						    qmail-users(5)

NAME

       qmail-users - assign mail addresses to users

OVERVIEW

       The file /var/lib/qmail/users/assign assigns addresses to users. For example,

	  =joe.shmoe:joe:503:78:/home/joe:::

       says that mail for joe.shmoe should be delivered to user joe, with uid 503 and gid 78, as specified by /home/joe/.qmail.

       Assignments  fed  to  qmail-newu  will  be  used  by  qmail-lspawn  to  control	qmail-local's deliveries.  See qmail-newu(8).  A change to
       /var/lib/qmail/users/assign will have no effect until qmail-newu is run.

STRUCTURE

       /var/lib/qmail/users/assign is a series of assignments, one per line.  It ends with a line containing a single dot.  Lines must not contain
       NUL.

SIMPLE ASSIGNMENTS

       A simple assignment is a line of the form

	  =local:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:ext:

       Here  local is an address; user, uid, and gid are the account name, uid, and gid of the user in charge of local; and messages to local will
       be controlled by homedir/.qmaildashext.

       If there are several assignments for the same local address, qmail-lspawn will use the first one.

       local is interpreted without regard to case.

WILDCARD ASSIGNMENTS

       A wildcard assignment is a line of the form

	  +loc:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:pre:

       This assignment applies to any address beginning with loc, including loc itself.  It means the same as

	  =locext:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:preext:

       for every string ext.

       A more specific wildcard assignment overrides a less specific assignment, and a simple assignment overrides any wildcard  assignment.   For
       example:

	  +:alias:7790:2108:/var/lib/qmail/alias:-::
	  +joe-:joe:507:100:/home/joe:-::
	  =joe:joe:507:100:/home/joe:::

       The  address  joe  is  handled  by the third line; the address joe-direct is handled by the second line; the address bill is handled by the
       first line.

SEE ALSO

       qmail-pw2u(8), qmail-newu(8), qmail-lspawn(8)

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