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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jimmy Gross wrote:

> 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.

While this was a workaround in the pre-update days on the RaQ3i, it's no
longer required.

> 2) For the user that you want to catch-all of the other undefined email set
> an alias of "@www.yourdomain.com" Please not you have to have the Cobalt
> Server Name in this example "www" If you just put "@yourdomain.com" it will
> catch-all of the email for that domain.
> 
> 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.

Easy:  Here's the line I put into my /etc/aliases.local file:

admin: jlasman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Jeff
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