Re: [cobalt-developers] email catchall accounts

[Herb Rubin <herbr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

Is the Site Settings right? Especially the email server aliases set to
domain.com ?

Herb


Steve Rogers wrote:

> Hi Herb,
>
> I have tried turning off the catch all and then did the following.
>
> set up 4 alias email names, 1 being the actual user name.
>
> sent 4 email  - 1 to each name.
>
> All got rejected as unknown user - except the actual user name, ie. it seems
> not to be taking any notice of the alias names.
>
> If I put back the catch all , nothing goes to the users email account
> ?????????
>
> > Is the virtual account setup as testdom.com or www.testdom.com? You might
> have
> > to change
> It is actually defined as testdom.com.
>
> Any Ideas,
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Herb Rubin" <herbr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 6:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] email catchall accounts
>
> > Steve,
> >
> > First turn off the catchall and see if he can get his mail. Then turn it
> back
> > on again.
> > This could be a problem with your /etc/mail/virtusertable.
> >
> > Is the virtual account setup as testdom.com or www.testdom.com? You might
> have
> > to change
> > your catchall as admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Herb
> >
> >
> > Steve Rogers wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have come across a 'problem' with the RAQ4 catch all account setup, or
> > > more likely something I have done wrong.
> > >
> > > I have a virtual domain  (  ie. testdom.com) and for the domain
> > > administrator I have setup the catch all alias ( @testdom.com). This
> works
> > > fine in that the adminitrator receives ALL the domain email, no matter
> who
> > > it is addressed to.
> > >
> > > The problem is that even if I set up another user with an email alias,
> that
> > > use can log onto the email server with no errors, but they do not get
> any
> > > mail that is addressed to them. It seems that the catch all is exactly
> that
> > > regardless of an other user's email alias.
> > >
> > > a couple of questions.
> > >
> > > 1. Is this a correct assumption ? ( i.e catchall will grab EVERYTHING )
> > > 2. If this is correct how do you set up an alias to grab everything, BUT
> > > aliases that are set up for users ?
> > > 3. Could someone tell me what I am going wrong and how to put it right?
> > >
> > > Many Thanks,
> > >
> > > Steve Rogers.
> > >
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