forward files not in $HOME

[Swen Thuemmler <swen@uni-paderborn.de>]

Hi,

in order to avoid mounting each an every homedirectory (they are widely
distributed in our environment) on every mail delivery, we have forward
files in /var/spool/mail/forward/username, not in ~/.forward. To make it 
a bit easier to configure this, I've made a patch for aliases.cf. This
does correct some other errors, too.

The patch is attached, hope you find it useful.

Greetings, Swen

diff -ubr zmailer-2.99.49p8.orig/proto/cf/aliases.cf zmailer-2.99.49p8/proto/cf/aliases.cf
--- zmailer-2.99.49p8.orig/proto/cf/aliases.cf	Sat Aug  2 22:03:10 1997
+++ zmailer-2.99.49p8/proto/cf/aliases.cf	Thu Oct 30 11:52:52 1997
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #	$MAILVAR/lists directory entry (mapping to a list of addresses)
 #	-request or -owner suffix (mapping to owner of mailing list file)
 #	$PUNTHOST (mapping to user@$PUNTHOST)
-#	$HOME/.forward file entry (mapping to a list of addresses)
+#	$FORWARD file entry (mapping to a list of addresses)
 #
 # If we get all the way through, we give up.  Note that if PUNTHOST is
 # defined, then the mboxmap mechanism should be used to ensure local delivery
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
 	# Listed in 'expired accounts' database ?
 	[ -z "$PUNTHOST" ] && [ -z "$didexpand" ] &&
 	    a=$(expired "$user") &&
-		db add expansions "$key" exired &&
+		db add expansions "$key" expired &&
 		return (((error acctexpired "$user" $attr)))
 
 	pobox="$(mboxmap "$user")" &&
@@ -285,7 +285,10 @@
 
 
 #	only allow .forward file reading if privs allow it
+	forward="/var/spool/mail/forward/$lcuser"
 	homedir="$(homedirectory "$user")" || [ -z "$didexpand" ] &&
+#	forward="$homedir/.forward"
+#	forward="/forwardfiles/$user"
 	ssift "$user" in # No 'homedir' for this user ? Has a '+' in it ?
 	(.+)\+.+
 		# Try expanding 'user+', and then plain 'user'
@@ -337,15 +340,15 @@
 		;;
 	tfiss
 	case "$(get $attr type)" in
-	expandsender)	a="$homedir/.forward"
+	expandsender)	a="$forward" &&
 			[ -f "$a" ] && return (($quad))
 			;;
 	esac
 
 	priv=$(get $attr privilege)
 
-	a="$homedir/.forward"
-	[ -z "$PUNTHOST" ] && [ -z "$didexpand" ] && [ -n "$homedir" ] &&
+	a="$forward"
+	[ -z "$PUNTHOST" ] && [ -z "$didexpand" ] && 
 	[ -f "$a" ] &&
 		db add expansions "$key" user &&
 		priv=$(getpriv "644" $priv "$a" .forward) &&
@@ -371,7 +374,8 @@
 			db add expansions "$key" other ;;
 		*)	# the address just disappears... we've got it already
 			#log expansion "$(expansions "$key"):"
-			return () ;;
+			#return () ;;
+			return (((bitbucket - - -))) ;;
 		esac
 	fi