Re: [cobalt-users] Virtusertable, SiteAdmins and accept-email-for-domain...

["Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 01:01:55PM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> Not necessarily fine.  See "sendmail" the O'Reilly book, Bryan Costales
> with Eric Allman, page 274:
> 
>   Note that sendmail does a single lookup, so one line may not reference
>   another.  The following won't work:
>   
>     info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	forsale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     @fictional.com		user@xxxxxxxxxxxx

If both 'stuff.for.sale.com' and 'fictional.com' are in the W class
then it WILL evaluate to 'user@xxxxxxxxxxxx'.  At least this is the
case with sendmail 8.9.3.

Which is really the same as what the original post was covering.

The issue was/is the Cobalt UI didn't provide a way to enter a 
default entry for a domain.  It shouldn't be that hard, just add
a location and check box with 'receive email for this domain'
for a 'catch all' alias, either you put one or it sends it to an
alias like 'no-such-user' which is a non-existent user or alias
so that the sendmail maps it to the NO SUCH USER error.

> This is a good question for the Mail Help list.  Perhaps I'll ask it
> there.

Much easier to ask sendmail, sendmail -bv is your friend. ;-)

> Anyone know anything I don't?

Probably, least there's plenty of people who know plenty of things
that I never heard of. ;-)

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