Re: [cobalt-users] Create email user account or even alias onlywithout web directory, etc?

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:

> > Any manual config file edit that will allow me to do this?
> 
> no, because forwarding to outside domains is handled in two steps, map
> from alias to username via virtusertable, followed by map from username to
> externam address vis aliases, if you don't have a real username inbetween
> , sendmail will get upset (they way it's configured on the raq's)

Actually it's easy; I just haven't had time to write it up this weekend
<frown>.

You create your own aliases file (I call my aliases.local) and make a
small change to sendmail.cf to use it.

To the bottom of virtusertable you add "domainuser@xxxxxxxxxx" pointing
to "useralias" (the "useralias" must NOT be a username on the RaQ). 
Then in aliases.local point "useralias" to the address you want to send
it to.

This is the RIGHT way to do this; why would you want to use up resources
on your RaQ to create users for people who only need email forwarding?

You've seen all those ads from web-hosting companies offering unlimited
forwards, haven't you?  You really didn't think they actually set up
thousands of users on their boxes, did you?

<smile>

>, you
> could i suppose reconfigure it ;) You should perhaps first ponder what
> would happen if the mail was undeliverable to the forward address
> tho...given that forwarding isn't instantanous ;)

Nothing worse than if you had a user on the box.  Either way, user or
not, the email will eventually be returned to the original sender
(return path).

Jeff
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