Re: [cobalt-users] Postmaster in use?? How come ?

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Robbert Hamburg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Postmaster in use?? How come ?
> 
> 
> > On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, shimi wrote:
> >
> > > > > Postmaster is locked to relaying mails to root (and from there to
> admin)
> > > > > check out /etc/aliases
> > > > >
> > > > Thanks but I think t what you mean does only apply for root and not
> for
> > > > virtual sites !!
> > > > Or am I wrong here ?
> >
> > Pretty much wrong...as you can't duplicate user names...and since
> > postmaster is in use....you can't use it again.
> >
> > You might try making postmaster and alias of
> > some_user_name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx sure if it will work...worth a try.
> >
> > But, if it were me, I'd avoid postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx like the
> > plague...too much incoming spam, and too many kiddies looking for a very
> > obvious logon name.
> >
> > thom
> 
> I agree totally with you on that kind of scriptkiddies. Indeed I tried to
> setup it as an alias. It doens't
> 
> However if I setup up before entering the virtual site to the dns then it
> works. But afterwards, when you try for example adding an extra alias to the
> same account I get the same error.
> But I don't quite understand how this can happen, is there a controllable
> relation between the virtual sites and the aliasses defined ???
> 
> - Robbert
> 

That's what I didn't understand!

DNS points hostnames to IP addresses, hostnames to other hostnames, IP
addresses to hostnames, incoming mail for domain handler address, and
that's about it.

You don't even have to define DNS on your cobalt if it's managed by some
other box, and the virtual site management doesn't care about existance of
domains or not for the exact same reason...

So I have to understand, you say, that if you don't add records for the
site in the DNS at the c-panel, you are able to define an alias
"postmaster" for one of the users on the site, but after you add records
for that virtual site, you can't do the exact same procedure???

- shimi.