Re: [cobalt-users] Raq4: Name-based site e-mail weirdness

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Michelle A. Hoyle" wrote:

> Well, since I honestly don't believe the DNS is actually the problem
> and I faithfully reproduced the exact set of circumstances and I had
> wanted to protect the anonymity of my customers, I didn't post the
> actual information.

Now that you've posted the information, and I've read it with complete
knowledge, I agree that it doesn't seem to be the problem.  I'll focus
one thing that might be, and ask you another question or two...

> >   *E-mail server aliases were added for butterdome.com and
> >    butterdomecraftsale.com in the
> >    RAQ interface for site www.worldofcrafts.ca
> >    MX records on the DNS system point mail for those names to
> >    butterdome.com and butterdomecraftsale.com, respectively,
> >    with a preference of 5.

I'm not sure how you added the aliases.  What I do is create a user for
each site as a catchall user.  That user has the catchall, for example
"@www.worldofcrafts.ca" in it, and additionally, is forwarded to for
example, "jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx", where "jblists" is the account I
really want the mail to end up, and "nobaloney.net" is the actual domain
where the jblists account resides.

This works for me on my RaQ3, and previously worked on my RaQ3.  But
this isn't what you do.  What you do is have aliases such as
"@www.butterdome.com" and "@www.cutterdomecraftsale.com" in a user at
the "www.worldofcrafts.ca" domain, and read the mail there.  Am I
correct in this understanding.

While I know I can write virtusertable entries myself to make this work,
I've never tried it this way on a RaQ, so I don't know what kind of
virtusertable entries get entered.  Have you tried my method?

Jeff
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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
nobaloney.net
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