Fw: [cobalt-developers] Catch all

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

Forgot the error email bye the server.

<test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
209.204.157.114 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 554 5.0.0 rewrite: excessive recursion (max 50), ruleset canonify
Giving up on 209.204.157.114.



----- Original Message -----
From: "William L. Thomson Jr." <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Catch all


> 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.
>
>
>