Re: [cobalt-users] email aliases

["Edward Bishop" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In your virtusertable, does the alias line read

mike.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ?

If it does, you need another line following it:

mike.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Having added this, do a rehash of virtusertable:

makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable < /etc/mail/virtusertable

Then stop and restart sendmail:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop

This worked for me... but I'm new to Linux... so wait a while before doing
it in case anyone knows better!


----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Smith <msmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hello everyone,
>
> I know that this has been addressed quite a few times, and I've done what
I
> believe a thorough search in the archives and KB, but still can't quite
get
> email aliases to function properly. Let's say I have a user
> mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx, and have an email alias for him called
> mike.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx I've even checked the etc/mail/virtusertable to
> ensure that the record does indeed exist (which it does). If I send mail
to
> mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx, it is delivered properly; however, mail sent to
> mike.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxx is returned with an error message stating that the
> user does not exist. We're on a Raq4i, and the DNS, MX and A records
appear
> to be configured properly.
>
> Any hints or suggestions? Thanks in advance.