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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad Rathbun 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.
> 
> 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?

This was required as a workaround for a bug in the RaQ3 gui.  If you've
got a RaQ2 or if you've updated your RaQ3, you don't need to do this any
longer.

> 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?

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

admin: jlasman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

It redirects all mail to admin to me.

Jeff
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