At 11/1/2000, you wrote:
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Dave Navarro wrote: > At 11/1/2000, John Cordeiro wrote:> > >Following the advice in the Knowledge-base, I placed the @domain.com email> > >address in the alias for the primary email account, however it grabs ALL > > >email, even email meant for existing users/aliases. > > > >Try using @host.domain.com works everytime. >> Didn't work. I put "@www.webgeek.com" in as an alias and sent a message to> "justtesting@xxxxxxxxxxx" and it bounced. > > If I put "@webgeek.com" in as an alias then *EVERYTHING* sent to > webgeek.com goes into that account, effectively disabling all of the other > accounts. Your MX record looks like this, though: mail.webgeek.com A (Address) 64.39.237.115 So you need to put @mail.webgeek.com as an alias.
Okay, I tried putting in "@mail.webgeek.com" and that didn't work. The mail bounces back:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (SMTP32) id A00000203; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:58:30 GMT Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:54:59 GMT Message-Id: <10011012254.AA00153@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: "Postmaster" <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Undeliverable Mail X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v980922> X-UIDL: 965608701 Status: U undeliverable to justtesting@xxxxxxxxxxx Original message follows.Received: from dave.basicguru.com [207.30.19.135] by mail.basicguru.com with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-4.07) id AF41655300F2; Wed, 01 Nov 2000 22:54:57 GMT Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001101185122.02062b40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> X-Sender: basicguru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 18:51:42 -0500 To: justtesting@xxxxxxxxxxx From: Dave Navarro <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Just Testing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Just Testing -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When I put in "@webgeek.com" then the "catch-all" works, except that it takes its job literally and catches **ALL** of the mail sent to the webgeek.com domain, even that meant for valid users.
--Dave