Re: [cobalt-users] Catch all not working

[Alfredo <alfredo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've RaQ4.
> the alias @www.br1.net doesn't work.
> the @br1.net catch all the mail of all the user.

Stay away from cnames in most situations and certainly when you're 
dealing with resolving names inside your own server. Cnames aren't 
used for that.

> The record for br1.net are
>
> br1.net      ->    208.155.65.29 
>  ns.br1.net       ->   208.155.65.29 
>  ns2.br1.net    --->   208.155.65.30 
>  www.br1.net        -->  208.155.65.29 
>  208.155.65.30/24       -->   ns2.br1.net
>  208.155.65.29/24    --->    www.br1.net
>  br1.net  mail is sent to the High priority mail server  www.br1.net

1 -- Filiberto, you have that reverse record for www.br1.net but if 
ns.br1.net is primary name server, eliminate that ptr record to www 
and do make a ptr record for:

208.155.65.28/24  ----> ns.br1.net

2 -- set the mail record domain to domain only (that opens the whole 
domain up) like this:

br1.net  mail is sent to the High priority mail server  br1.net

3 -- Then go to the GUI (I know this differs between Raq4s and Raq3s but...)

To get the IP address to resolve to the www.bri.net, just go to the 
GUI's records for that web site and make sure IT answers for the 
domain (in the Raq3, that's just a checkmark -- I think in Raq4 that 
you have to enter the url itself).

AND then, in that same configuration screen, make sure this web site 
(www.bri.net) receives email for this domain. (enter the name if you 
have to). THAT should tag it to receive catch-all mail. (Your users 
will still be able to use br1.net as their mail domain, by the way).

The theory is you want to do DNS reverse for your dns servers and mx 
records the entire domain without hostname and then use alias records 
(the ones the GUI does) to make things more specific.

Again, this is Raq3 talk so maybe someone with a 4 can be more 
specific or you can figure it out from your own GUI screen.

Alfredo




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