Re: [cobalt-developers] Catch all

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Hi,

I had a lot of 'hassle' trying to sort this out, but I eventually found a
solution ( for the RAQ4) as follows, which did not involve any manual mods
to the sendmail configuration files.

example. testdom.com

virtual site
********
when creating the virtual site do the following.
create email aliases testdom.com and mail.testdom.com in the email alias
entry area.

dns entries.
*********
auto reverse A record for testdom.com
non reverse record for testdom.com with    www  as host
non reverse record for testdom.com with    mail  as host
create MX record for testdom.com pointing to mail server www.testdom.com

users
****
 when the user who is to collect the 'catch all' email is created give them
an alias of @www.testdom.com


summary
*******
For me this gives a complete working solution on the RAQ4 that will allow
the users set up on the site to have email aliases and one user to have the
'catch all' account. The mail host dns and the mail.testdom.com aliases were
set up so that the mail could be accessed via mail.testdom.com rather that
the suggested www.testdom.com.


Hope this helps,

Steve
(many thanks to Herb for his help in resolving the problems I had)







----- Original Message -----
From: "William L. Thomson Jr." <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Cobalt Developers Group" <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:23 AM
Subject: Fw: [cobalt-developers] Catch all


> 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
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