[cobalt-users] &*&%$£ Mail Aliases on RAQ3

["Colin Jack" <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please can somebody with a bit more Cobalt/Linux experience give me a hand?
I am a bit of a newbie!

I have trawled through the (rather out of date) cobalt knowledgebase and
posted a support email on the cobalt site, but after the initial response
seem to have stumped them :(

I am trying to set up a RAQ3 as an email server. By and large I have got
everything working okay EXCEPT for the darn email aliases. I have to assume
that I have got something wrong, but what?

This is how I am setup:

Because the cobalts insist on sending mail to a virtual site (and I have web
sites for the domains running on another server) I have set up virtual sites
with the host name mail.xxx.xxx

In the DNS I have tried setting the MX record to both mail.mydomain.com and
just plain mydomain.com. I have also tried with and without an address entry
for host mail.mydomain.com. It doesn't seem to make a lot of difference!

In the virtual site settings, I have "Receive Mail for the Site" checked.

If I create a user called john then email addressed to john@xxxxxxxxxxxx is
delivered okay
If I create an email alias for john called johnsmith then email addressed to
johnsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx bounces with "user unknown".

I have checked the /etc/virtusertable and the entry for

johnsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  john

is in there just the same as

john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  john

As far as I can see it should work! The mail for @mydomain.com is being
delivered okay, all users get their mail okay ... it's just the aliases that
bounce.

Please can somebody give me a clue :)

Thanks

Colin

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