Re: [cobalt-users] Cannot use "admin" as an Email alias??

[Kul <WebMaster@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Tubbe wrote:

> I found the same thing.  Has anyone been able to work around this issue?
>
> --------
> Hi,
>
> On my RAQ3, I have a couple of sites that were using "admin" as an email
> alias.   Recently, I upgraded to OS3, and then to OS4.   Shortly after
> those
> updates, some customers complained that they could not receive emails
> anymore using their ADMIN email alias.  After investigation, I found out
>
> that all the admin@ emails were now catched by the RAQ and sent to the
> ADMIN
> system account!  ...  Why is that???   If at least this was mentioned in
> the
> features list, I could have warned my customers....
>
> <snip>

Hi Micheal,

There are a number of work arounds in the archives for this problem, like editing the /etc/virtusertable  Although that worries me a little due to the likelyhood of them being overwritten in a subsequent release :)   I wrote a procmail scrpt to skip around both these problems that you may find of use (see below)
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Regards,
Kul
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