Re: [cobalt-users] RE: Catch-all email address

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Annette Sharp, NetSharp" wrote:

> My solution to the domain which was screwed in this way was to wipe out
> every trace of the domain and start again, in the right order this time!
> This meant backing up any email for the user, deleting all users, the site
> and the DNS records for the site.

No matter what else, you should NEVER have to delete the DNS records;
DNS is a completely separate service; it has nothing to do with the
sites on the RaQ.  It's just coincidental that you use it for the sites
on the Raq.

> Then I removed any lingering traces of
> that domain from virtusertable in /etc/mail.

Actually, if this were true, and you had to do all of this to get the
Catchall to work properly, then your RaQ four would be completely
unusable...

> Then I started all over again,
> doing the DNS first, then the site, then the users. When it came to the
> users I set up the non catch-all ones FIRST, and the catchall account last.

... because every time you wanted to add a user you'd have to delete the
entire site and start over again.

> I don't see why that should make a difference but it seems to have something
> to do with the problem. Oh, and I defintely used @www.domain.com to get my
> catchall working.

In order for this to be the case, the RaQ4 would have to be using
systems completely independent of the sendmail Cobalt says it's based
on.

Can any knowledgeable Linux/Unix systems admin with a RaQ4 (sorry I
don't have one) care to reply to this post, or to the post I'm replying
to, and advise?  Please?

While I want to believe Annette, I just can't see how this could happen
at all.

Jeff
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