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Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ3: Catch-all email address
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ3: Catch-all email address
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Nov 1 20:02:01 2000
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Roger Harrison wrote:
> 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.
Not necessarily. DNS records only get the mail to the computer; once it
gets there they don't do anything.
The alias needs to be "@hostname.webgeek.com", where hostname is
whatever the site's hostname has been set up as. For most of us, it's
"www".
Doing it any other way is guaranteed to not work. If you study
/etc/virtusertable, you'll be able to see why.
Jeff
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