Re: [cobalt-users] e-mail retrieval

[Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

Mark Davies wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> Can anybody help me with these 2 problems please:
> System is QUBE 2

I'm on a Qube 2700WG (i.e. Mark 1).

> I cannot get anybody to pick up e-mails addressed to
>  'mail@[system name].com
> I thought that the user admin would pick up everything that was not
> addressed to a proper user, and I could edit /etc/aliases to let a

On the Qube, if mail doesn't match a username or alias, it gets bounced.

> normal user (say john) pick up admins mail ie:
> 
> root: admin
> admin: john
> 
> This works to some degree, but only picks up system error messages, I
> have now added:
> 
> mail: john

You *did* run newaliases, didn't you?
I've just run a test and it works fine.

> My next problem is that I want the mail to left on the ISP for 4 to 5
> days, so that people can access this from home, there is no chance of
> dialling into the QUBE at all, so this is not an option.

I don't quite get what you mean here.