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Emails to @debian.org now go through a LDAP distributed email system. This
system uses the forwarding field in the LDAP directory to route mail without
-passing it through a users .forward/.qmail file on a single computer.
+passing it through a users .forward file on a single computer.
Multiple machines participate in the forwarding to provide redudency.
-The system is very simple, each of the forwarders inspects the ldap database
-to see if foo@debian.org has fowarding set to an address, if so the envelope
-address to is rewritten and the message redirected to that address.
+Each of the forwarders inspects the LDAP database
+to see if foo@debian.org has forwarding set to an address, if so the envelope
+to address is rewritten and the message redirected to the new address.
Otherwise the message is relayed to master.debian.org for processing by the
-users .qmail files. If email forwarding is setup then .qmail files are
+users .forward files. If email forwarding is setup then .forward files are
NOT considered. Extension addresses (foo-lists) are always routed
directly to master for processing.
All machines also use the forwarding attribute as a default destination for
email. If the user has a home directory and no .forward file the mail is
forwarded rather than delivered to /var/spool/mail. This makes sure cron
-reports, bug responses and other unexpected emails are not lost.
+reports, bug responses and other unexpected emails are not misplaced.
The email forwarding can be easially reconfigured using GnuPG:
-echo "emailfoward: foo@bar.com" | gpg --clearsign | mail change@db.debian.org
+echo "emailforward: foo@bar.com" | gpg --clearsign | mail change@db.debian.org
-or by visiting db.debian.org/
+or by visiting db.debian.org
+procmail
+If you use procmail for your main mailbox, PLEASE, erase your .forward
+file and put a .procmailrc in its place instead. This feature has been
+supported on debian.org machines for a good while now, and will continue to be
+supported.
+
+The correct way to invoke procmail for extension addresses is "|/usr/bin/procmail [options]"
+Ignore the IFS=".." stuff in the procmail man page.
+
MailBox formats
+Emails can be saved to mailboxes or maildirs by using the correct lines in a
+.forward file:
+
+Mailbox format files "/debian/home/foo/Mbox"
+
Maildir format files "/debian/home/foo/MDir/"
+
+To deliver to /var/spool/mail/foo use a construct like '|/usr/bin/procmail
+-m /dev/null'. Putting the mailbox path will not work. You must use
+absolute paths for mailboxes, qmail-like ./ paths are not supported by
+Exim.
+
+Also, 'Exim Filter' files are deliberately turned off.
+
Delivey Environment
+Some environment variables are set per-message (not quoted! Carefull!)
+It is important to note that the environment variables dealing with
+addressing apply to the ENVELOPE address are are totally completely
+unrelated to the actual contents of the message:
+
+'Standard' Env Variables:
+
+- EXTENSION (the 'foo' in .forward-foo)
+
- LOGNAME,USER (your user name)
+
- SENDER (envelope originator of message)
+
+
+'Qmail' Env Variables:
+
+- EXT == EXTENSION
+
- LOCAL = (the entire bit before the @)
+
- RECIPIENT = (the entire envelope to)
+
+
+Such that, $RECIPIENT = $LOCAL-EXTENSION@<something>.
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You can contact us at admin@db.debian.org.
-Last Modified: Wed, May 3 03:52:52 UTC 2000
+Last Modified: Wed, May 10 04:51:33 UTC 2000
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