Re: [cobalt-developers] Reserved emails - what does Sun think?

["Rik Thomas" <rikt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 1) Are there any more reserved email addresses I should know about (I
only
> > discovered the admin@ when clients stopped receiving their mail when
they
> > decided to use my services - no a good look)
> >
> > 2) Does Sun intend to fix this
> >
> > thanks
> > gareth
> I believe that the reserved email addresses are stored in two files:
> /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases and /etc/virtusertable or
/etc/mail/virtusertable (depending on
> your product.  Usually, reserved email addresses are admin, root,
sys....etc...

There are no "official" reserved e-mail addresses...Sendmail  will look in
aliases first, then virtusertable, then the passwd file.

> Actually, by modifying /etc/aliases, I believe you can set your own
aliases...but this entails a
> bending of the warrenty.
>

> This is more of a limitation of Linux and Sendmail....so I don't figure
Sun will be tackling the
> issue anytime soon.  It would be nice however, for Sun to have some
documentation on the subject.

Hmm.  There are no limitations in sendmail and linux.  It is a limitation
with Sun Cobalt's GUI/special sauce whatever, it is a bug pure and simple.

> Hope its helped
>
> =====
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> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> print "Have Clue Will Travel";
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I better no comment on that. :P



Rik Thomas
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