Re: [cobalt-developers] Catch all

["William L. Thomson Jr." <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A little while back a came across a posting below about creating a catch all email alias.  I
recently just now had the time to try this method.  I am running a RaQ 4 and for some reason have
never been able to get catch all email aliases to work.  So I figured it must be something with the
Cobalt GUI.  Although after telneting in and manually modifying the settings.  I did everything
exactly as shown below (of course with my info), but for some reason it still does not work.  The
server I send my outgoing mail through gave me the following error email back.


Any suggestions?  Anyone run into this?  Or is my rack just stubborn?

Thanks.

Happy Holidays,
William L. Thomson Jr.
CEO
Obsidian-Studios Inc.
439 Amber Way
Petaluma, Ca. 94952
Phone/fax 707.766.8989
http://www.obsidian-studios.com


>  In the RaQ3i, if you wan to catch all mail like "whatever@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" you should create the >
email alias "@www.somedomain.com" rather than "@somedomain.com" for the user who is going >  to
receive all unespecified mail and check the option "accept mail for domain" in the global
>  configurations for the virtual site "www.somedomain.com". You can do this in the web control >  >
>  panel or telneting to the RaQ and editing the file /etc/virtusertable adding this lines:

>  # catch-all aliases
>  @www.somedomain.com someuser
>  # accept-email-at-domain routes
>  @somedomail.com %10www.somedomain.com

>  If you set the mail alias as "@somedomain.com" instead of "@www.somedomain.com", the user
>  "someuser" will receive all mail sent to "somedomain", overwriting any other mail acount or
alias.