[cobalt-users] [Raq4] Email nightmares

["NETworkers Web Services" <web@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have managed to create a "catch-all" alias (ie:
anything@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx goes to person X). Note that on our RAQ4i, we
split WWW and MAIL (for a domain name) into two seperate virtual sites.
Example DNS settings:

domain.net.au      -> 203.xx.xx.xxx (RAQs IP)
ftp.domain.net.au    ->  203.xx.xx.xxx (RAQs IP)
mail.domain.net.au    ->  203.xx.xx.xxx (RAQs IP)
www.domain.net.au    ->  203.xx.xx.xxx (RAQs IP)
domain.net.au  ... mail is sent to the Low priority ... mail
serversecondary.mail.server
domain.net.au  ... mail is sent to the High priority mail server ...
mail.domain.net.au
mail.domain.net.au  ... mail is sent to the High priority mail server ...
mail.domain.net.au
www.domain.net.au  ... mail is sent to the High priority mail server ...
mail.domain.net.au


Then create a virtual site for mail.domainname.com.au with the following:

hostname: mail
domain name: domainname.net.au
web server alias: leave blank
email server alias: domainname.net.au


Then create a virtual site for www.domainname.com.au with the following:

hostname: www
domain name: domainname.net.au
web server alias: leave blank
email server alias: leave blank



OK - now you have your sites setup. To create the catchall alias:

Add a new user for the virtual site: mail.domainname.net.au, and give them
the following alias: "@mail.domainname.net.au" (without the quotes)

Then give the Site Administrator for the WWW virtual site
(www.domainname.net.au) the following alias: @www.domainname.net.au - and it
works!



> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> -------------------------
>
> OK,
>
> I've read all about editing virtual user files, adding mail server aliases
> to the Control Panel, CNAME records not working for MX, www host names
> handling email... and quite frankly I'm going insane. I've got mail
looping,
> bouncing and jumping all over the place and I just can't make any sense
out
> of it.
>
> All I'm trying to do is configure a catchall alias. How hard can that be?
>
> What it comes down to is that I had it working before, but didn't know
why,
> so started changing host names, removing mail aliases etc. in order to try
> and determine which part of what I had done was actually producing the
> desired result. And then I lost track. (Incidentally I originally had the
> host name configured as "mail", as I'm not hosting the web site in this
case
> and was thinking I could provide webmail as well using this host name, and
I
> also had the catchall alias configured as "@mail.domain").
>
> So can anyone share with me a combination that they have of host name,
> domain name, web server aliases and email server aliases which allows you
to
> configure a catchall alias without having to hack the box to bits?
>
> Even better, does someone have a definitive Cobalt email FAQ which
actually
> attempts to explain the logic behind this system? There's a lot of
> information in the lists covering all sorts of different problems I've
come
> across, but trying to consolidate it in my mind is a virtual impossibility
> and it seems that if I can just get my server configurations right it can
be
> kept nice and simple.
>
> Argh.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris Bell
> --
>
>
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