Re: [cobalt-users] Qube2 problems

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

Jona,

on 29/1/01 7:21 PM, Jona Tallieu (T & T  n.v.) at Junk@xxxxxx wrote:

Firstly none of what you ask is possible via the GUI ... you will have to
telnet into the Qube and use an editor like vi to edit config files and
scripts.  This will void your Cobalt warranty.

> Problem 1:
> The Qube has about 40 email accounts configured for
> 1 domain. We want that mail which does not have
> a final destination, is not bounced, but is send to
> the general emailbox "info@xxxxxxxxxx". So incoming
> email which is normally bounced with "user unknown"
> is accepted and redirected to the info-mailbox.
> How can this be done on the Qube2??

You need to edit /etc/aliases to add a "catch all" at the end.  Make sure
you run newaliases after you edit this file.

The downside is that the Cobalt GUI scripts will add new entries to the end
of /etc/aliases so you will have to move the "catch all" whenever the GUI
updates the list.

> Problem 2:
> The general mail address info@xxxxxxxxxx has
> to be forwarded to 4 offices. So all mail
> for info@xxxxxxxxxx must be redirected to user1, user2, user3
> and user4. The only solution I found for this was
> creating a mailinglist.
> But this has as result that user1, user2, user3 and user4
> get a mail from "owner-info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" instead
> of the original sender. I found a solution for this
> on the FAQ, I let a Linux-expert apply the fix, and it
> worked for a couple of days, but then the wrong-reply adress
> bug came back.

The problem is that you probably edited the config file for mailing list.
The config file is created by a script ... if the script is reactivated by
the GUI (e.g. change list members) you will lose your manual changes.

To change the list preference for all future mailing lists, change the
following'

/usr/local/majordomo/config_parse.pl

From:
        'reply_to',             '#! local($TEMP) = $list;
                                    if ( $list =~ /-digest$/) {
                                       $TEMP =~ s/-digest$//;
                                       $TEMP;
                                    } else {
                                       "";
                                       }',

To:
        'reply_to',             '$SENDER',
#       'reply_to',             '#! local($TEMP) = $list;
#                                   if ( $list =~ /-digest$/) {
#                                      $TEMP =~ s/-digest$//;
#                                      $TEMP;
#                                   } else {
#                                      "";
#                                      }',

> Another problem is that large messages (over 40000 characters)
> get bounced uwhen using the mailinglist!!!

In /usr/local/majordomo/config_parse.pl you will also find a section which
talks about message size being 40000 characters ... increase it.

> I just really do not like that you can not just put more
> than 1 emailaddresses in the "forward to" box in the admin!!!

Yeh, that is a bit of a pain, but you can always manually edit /etc/aliases.

Cheers,  Malcolm