Re[2]: [cobalt-users] RaQ2: Strange email aliasing

[jmcclumpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hello flash22,

Friday, 26 October, 2001, 4:56:14 PM, you wrote:
fin> The raq2's don't really like it when you have a real user name that is the
fin> same as an alias on another domain, i mever really figured out why, but ,
fin> a workaround that seems to work, is to forward the alias to
fin> realuser@localhost instead of domain, eg 
<SNIP>

hm ok - makes sense (kinda) - I've now tried the following

user gmi@xxxxxxxxxxx with an alias of enquiries
user blue@xxxxxxxxxxx with an alias of enquiries

however when I send to either enquiries@xxxxxxxxxxx or
enquiries@xxxxxxxxxxx they bounce back

I have done a "newaliases" and still nothing - where would the alias
definitions for these sit?

they are in the virtusertable as follows:

enquiries@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx     gmi
enquiries@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx     blue


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

has todays date on it - so I assume its ok :)

thanks

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