qmail-users(5)     Headers, Tables, and Macros     qmail-users(5)



NAME
     qmail-users - assign mail addresses to users

OVERVIEW
     The file /var/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/qmail/users/assign will have no effect  until
     qmail-newu is run.

STRUCTURE
     /var/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 mes-
     sages 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:



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qmail-users(5)     Headers, Tables, and Macros     qmail-users(5)



        +:alias:7790:2108:/var/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)