[cobalt-users] Mail_Aliases_on_RAQ3?

["Colin Jack" <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the feedback - I will try the DNS changes.

Yes I do have a domain wide rule. This is the infuriating thing .... I am
just using the Cobalt GUI and following their instructions!
Looking in the userlist archive, I have seen a LOT of people running into
this issue with the upgrade to the latest Cobalt OS :( ... unfortunatley
nobody has any answers.

The thing is that I have about 1000 users on here, so don't want to spend
too much time making manual changes everywhere.

Logically I suppose it can't be reaching the virtusertable.db otherwise it
would work! This would suggest that it is a DNS issue no? (newbie here) ...
I will see if I can get the sendmail debug to give me a clue!

Colin

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Message: 15
From: flash22@xxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:46:21 -0400 (EDT)
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] =?iso-8859-1?Q?&*&%$=A3_Mail_Aliases_on_RAQ3?=
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Colin Jack wrote:

> 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

You probably need 2 MX records (one for each to do it this way)

> 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".

You can short circuit all the silly delivery rewriting for local users by
aliasing to localhost , eg

johnsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx john@localhost

This is a bit gross, but will force delivery ;)

>
> 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.

do you have a domain wide rule?
eg

@mydomain.com %1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

(Or , depending how you set it up, possibly the reverse of this)

sendmail has a test mode btw, you can make it tell you what it's doing...

gsh




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