Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ2: Strange email aliasing

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 jmcclumpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hello people,
> 
> I'm having a problem where if somebody sends an email to
> enquiries@xxxxxxxxxxx then everything comes through ok (where user
> enquiries exists under domain1.com) - however if I have a user setup
> (userabc@xxxxxxxxxxx) with an alias of enquiries (so that it can also
> have the same initial section) any mail sent to enquiries@xxxxxxxxxxx
> ends up in the mailbox for enquiries@xxxxxxxxxxxx

The raq2's don't really like it when you have a real user name that is the
same as an alias on another domain, i mever really figured out why, but ,
a workaround that seems to work, is to forward the alias to
realuser@localhost instead of domain, eg 
enquiries@xxxxxxxxxxx -> userabc@localhost , local rewriting shortcircuits
all the rest of the name aliasing....

> I also have the problem that if an alias (just.testing) is setup any
> mail sent to just.testing@xxxxxxxxxxx is bouncing back with "Delivery
> failure notification" - this also applies if the email is sent to
> just.testing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

dots are evil, they make rhe raq2 unhappy, they also cause it to spew and
moan about duplicate email aliases if you do johndoe@ and also john.doe@
...which is weird, because it won't accept delivery for both...

> I have just finished installing all the updates from the cobalt
> support site (as I figured the RaQ2 Update 3.0 would fix these
> problems) - however things are still not working - during the install
> I received the following messages:
> 
> warning: /etc/ftpusers created as /etc/ftpusers.rpmnew
> cannot remove /usr/var/proftpd - directory not empty
> 
> would these have omething to do with it?

Nope, i think you updated from a very old machine ;)
(Look at the date on /usr/var/proftpd/proftpd-inetd , if it's 2001 you're
fine, it was just a hiccough in the installer script....

As i remember, several of the OS updates spewed misc errors and things,
they aren't very clean, but they seem to work ok, mostly ;)

gsh