Re: [cobalt-users] Email forwarding on RaQ3

[Martin Adams <Martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Werby wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> --
> Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}
> 
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point well taken, I bow to your suggestions.

Martin