RE: [cobalt-developers] Re: reserved emails

["Hosting Sales" <hosting@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Of course it's a bug.  Anytime any piece of software let's you do
something then erases the effect thereof without so much as a pardon me,
then blames it on the O/S, that's a bug.  Worse, it is a deliberate bug,
a/k/a feature.

One possible fix I stumbled onto is at the following:

http://freebies.omega-isp.com/raq3/procmail-alias-fix-1-2.shtml

If you are using Procmail as your LDA (if you're not, you should be),
there is a Procmail recipe here that directs mail for admin and a few
other names (that Sun thinks are special) to a user mailbox, i.e.,
admin@xxxxxxxxxxx  I haven't tried it since I don't suffer from this
problem (as I've said before, I gave up on the Cobalt GUI a while ago),
but it might be worth a peek.  Perhaps someone with the admin problem
could try it out and let everybody else know how it works.

BTW, good point, Gareth.  Anyone who doesn't know the difference between
a site administrator and a server administrator probably shouldn't be
either.

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gareth
Watkins
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 5:33 AM
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-developers] Re: reserved emails

> Why is it when something doesn't work the way you want it, it is a
> bug.  Any site can use the alias admin.  At least my server does.
Cobalt
> made a decision as the system was designed for those of us that don't
know
> enough how to set up a system on our own.  In doing so they made the
> decision that every site needs an admin email alias and they send it
to
> whom ever is designated as siteadmin.  I don't think this is a bug.
Then
> again, I guess you could use a generic system instead of one built
with a GUI.

This is on a RAQ3 - your product may differ

What you said above is what SHOULD happen.

What actually happens is that it get sent to the SERVER admin and NOT
the
site admin.

So there is no way for the client to get the email as the GUI doesn't
allow
the use of the admin@ email alias and using catch-alls doesn't catch it
either.

SO IN CONLUSION:
Is it a bug ... ?
Will it get fixed ...?
....
....

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