[TriLUG] qmail and RHEL 4 - all mail routed to same email...

[John Jones]

I am not sure why so many people are down on qmail.  It is an 
*extremely* secure MTA and also extremely stable.

Whoever "dumped" it on you probably knew what he was doing and should 
most likely be commended.

qmail is touted as the second most popular MTA, right behind Sendmail.  
I think we all know it is FAR more secure than Sendmail, which IMO has 
an abysmal security record (at least, last I checked).

I don't care what we think of the author of this software, I have been 
using it for over six years and have not had to patch it one time for 
security purposes, and can probably count on one hand the number of 
times I had to restart it.  In fact, I might not have ever had to 
restart qmail because of a problem with qmail.  Sure, I ran out of HD 
space, or filled up the log partition and had to restart, but not 
usually (if ever) qmail's fault.

That said, qmail is not for a newbie, I will give you that.  All the 
configuring is done by hand.

A very useful site would be http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html.

I am not sure exactly how to do what you are asking, but it looks like 
this comes close:
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#extension-addresses


It seems that qmail has wildcard matching, from looking at the example.  
You would have to play around in the alias directory to get it right.  
Other than that, you would need to set up a few files in your ./controls 
directory.  Namely the "locals" file which configures what domains qmail 
will accept mail for.

If you go through the trouble up front, you will have a stable, secure 
and reliable MTA that will "just work" for years and years without 
hardly an effort (my experience anyway).

I hope this helps.

-John