Re: [cobalt-users] Email forwarding on RaQ3

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Adams <Martin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The easiest way is to create a list in the domain such as sales@xxxxxxxx
> and include the e-mail addresses in the list. I use this system for my
> company's editors who use Palm VIIs on the road this way a copy of the
> email is sent to several email addresses.

I agree that the above method is easy.  And it is the only method available via
Cobalt's GUI.  However when you do it this way you are setting up a Majordomo
mailing list.  That's overkill in my opinion if your goal is to create an email
alias that delivers email to several recipients.  I'm not sure about the default
Majordomo settings on the RaQ, but you may run into some problems as well.
Emails sent to the list with any administrative request words (help, subscribe,
unsubscribe, info, who) in the first 10 or so lines may get bounced to the list
admin instead of getting routed to the list subscribers.  Plus you'll put extra
unnecessary load on the server by forcing messages through Majordomo's perl
processing program.  If you want to do it through the GUI this is the way to go.
If you want to do it the right way add records to /etc/aliases like below, then
run "newaliases".

username1:    username2, username3, alias1@xxxxxxxxxxx, alias2@xxxxxxxxxxx

Or add recipients one per line to a text file and add records to /etc/aliases
like:

username1:    :include:/path_to/my_distribution_list

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Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}