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[cobalt-users] Re: Email aliases are getting sent to real account.



Before I started hosting my own accounts I had aliases called "webmaster"
and "admin" and "info"... and im sure on their box they had a user name
"webmaster" etc.

I've found a problem in the past that _breaks_ all aliases, I guess this could be it.

For some reason, _sometimes_ the GUI will let you create an "admin" alias for a virtual site. I know because I used to create them by default for my customers.

Then I found out that ALL the aliases "admin", "postmaster" (and I think "abuse" too) are routed to the "admin" user. You _can't_ create this aliases on a virtual site (in theory at least).

BUT if you manage to create the "admin" alias (as I did), you will break all aliases until you remove it. This is what will happen:

whatever@virtualsite will appear in whatever@mainsite (if "whatever" user exists). i.e.: if the main site has a user called "joe", he will start getting all mail directed to joe@ANYvirtualsite.

From what I remember, once this happens you're not allowed to create an "admin" alias anymore, but I'm sure I had created it for about 10-20 sites. I had to go site by site deleting the admin alias until everything started to work again.

If anybody can shed some light on this, I'd appreciate it.

Best regards,
Jorge