Re: [cobalt-developers] question regarding order of mail delivery attempts, re. CGI forms

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding Cobalt-related issues from Albert C. <itacroft-cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> -In the site settings, the domain is NOT set to accept mail for the domain,
> nor has the site been set to accept mail for the domain at any point.
> -A CGI on a contact page is designed to email the results of the form to an
> address specified by the customer, such as joe@xxxxxx
> -joe does not exist as a user on the machine.
> -When the script is executed, joe@xxxxx does not receive the email, and an
> error message in the system log files indicates that it could not be
> delivered because the user 'joe' did not exist.
> -If the CGI is set to deliver instead to joe@xxxxx, where y.com is a domain
> that does not have a site on the machine, joe@xxxxx will receive the email
> properly.

Set the site to accept mail for the domain.  Either create a user or alias "joe" on
the site or add a catch-all account to the site (in this case make sure there isn't a
Linux user named "joe" or that account may receive the email instead of the desired
account).

BTW, this topic would probably be more appropriate for cobalt-users.

Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}