Re: [cobalt-users] SMTP Aliases

["Peter Low" <peterlow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:02 PM 11/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello -
>
>I am looking into using a Cube3 to replace my current mail server
>software (Netscape Mail).  I have spent a lot of time reading about
>the RAQ and Cube products, but I am having a hard time finding
>information about SMTP email aliases.  Basically, I have a long list
>of defunct email address that have corresponding forwarding
>addresses and I want the mail server to do email forwarding in the
>most efficient manner.  Netscape calls these SMTP channel aliases.
>Is there a way to get similar functionality of a cube or a raq?  I
>certainly don't want to maintain these people in the user database.
>Hopefully there is another way.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>
>Greg

I have a relatively small number of accounts that are defunct and need 
email forwarding.  In a couple of instances, I have gone into the aliases 
file and set forwarding there, with success (it works, and is reflected 
through the GUI).  However, these accounts were set up first through the 
GUI.  I have not seen a script for the Qubes that enable user creation from 
the command line (that you could include in a bulk user creation script).

Another issue I had for defunct accounts:  I did not want the defunct 
accounts to retain their original password or disk allocation.  Obviously, 
I don't want users who have moved on to be able to access the device.  If 
you are doing bulk account creation, you will probably want a system that 
allocates random passwords.  I was not able to figure out where to 
reallocate disk space through the command line, and ended up having to 
change that through the GUI -- this is just as painful as setting up 
forwarding addresses through the GUI.

Peter

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