Re: [cobalt-users] Forwarding Email RAQ2

[Roger Harrison <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Brian Rahill wrote:

> I have a client who wants all his email forwarded to an existing email 
> account.  I went in through the GUI and tried to do this but the email 
> address he wants it to be forwarded to is something 
> like:  username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and the GUI is rejecting 
> this saying it's an invalid email address.

Hi Brian,

The following is for a Raq3. I don't know if it also applies to a Raq2.

You could try adding the alias manually (backup aliaes file first):
cp /etc/aliases /etc/aliases.backup
pico -w /etc/aliases
Go to the end of the file and add something like:
username: username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Close the file and then run newaliases (just type: newaliases 
at the prompt).

Incidentally, you can also do this to forward to more than one email
address. If you try to add more than one email forwarding address in the
GUI you will get an error, but you can do it in the aliases file manually
like this:

username: address1@xxxxxxxxxxx,address2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Be aware, though, that if you do this and then try to edit it in the GUI
you will still get errors, so you can only change it manually afterwards
(unless you go back to having one email address that the GUI will allow).

Hope that helps,

Roger Harrison