[cobalt-users] Re: How to create that "catchall"-alias?

["David Thacker" <Cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad & Jimmy,

1. Setting up an alias equal to the username was a workaround needed to get
the catch-all alias working properly before the RaQ3 OS3 update.  Without the
alias, email to the username would go to the catch-all box instead.  This is
fixed in the OS3 update, thus it is no longer necessary to add an alias equal
to the username (though there's nothing wrong with that either).

2. In my personal RaQ3 experience, mail to "admin" or "root" goes to the pop
box for admin regardless of any catch-all aliases set up for other users,
which is what you would expect.  Perhaps if you incorrectly created a
ctach-all alias using @domain.tld instead of the proper @host.domain.tld you
might have admin mail forwarded to the catch-all, but I haven't tested that.

dAvid tHacker
Thacker Network Technologies Inc.
Cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


----- Original Message -----
> Message: 22
> Reply-To: "Brad Rathbun" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> From: "Brad Rathbun" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] How to create that "catchall"-alias?
> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:28:09 -0700
> Organization: CyberHighway of Northern Nevada
> charset="Windows-1252"
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > 1) All usernames need to have an alias of itself. For example if my
> username
> > was "jimmy" I would set up and alias of "jimmy" This needs to be done for
> > each user.
>
> I'm curious about this one. Why is it necessary? I've got mine set up this
> way by coincidence, but I was wondering what this actually does. What
> happends if you don't do this - does all email for this username go to the
> catchall instead?
>
> > Also your catch-all account will receive admin and root mail. I have not
> > found a way to set up an alias for admin or root.
>
> And this one makes me curious, too. Does this mean that *all* email
> addressed to the server admin is going to a virt domain catchall instead of
> me? What, specifically, do I need to do to make sure I get the Admin mail
> instead of a virt domain owner getting it?
>
> Still trying to wrap my mind around all the different things the Raq does
> weird so I can self-diagnose when something goes bad at 2:00am on Sunday.
> ;^)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad