RE: [cobalt-users] Email alias alreadt exists? No it doesn't. RaQ3

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a catchall for one of my domains, and it's working
> perfectly.  I can
> receive email to any address, as long as it isn't "admin" or that
> of another
> user of course.
>
> But!  Anything sent to admin@mydomain does not arrive, but does not bounce
> either.
>
> So I went in to my admin user account and attempted to add the
> alias "admin"
> only to be told that alias already exists for this domain.
>
> How can this be, when it certainly does not.  There is a
> possibility I added
> a test user and tried the alias "admin" when I was setting up the domain,
> but if I did this was deleted long ago.
>
> Is my email sitting there somewhere just waiting for me, is it
> possible the
> phantom "admin" alias wasn't correctly deleted, and how do I get
> around this
> problem?  I have some important emails in my admin iinbox that I
> must reply
> to asap.
>
> Everything has been done using the GUI btw.
>

Have you taken a look at /var/spool/mail to see if there is mail for admin?
You should be able to retrieve it with the main server admin user name and
password.
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Dan Kriwitsky