Re: [cobalt-users] Postmaster emails disappearing

["Roy A. Urick" <roy.urick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jeff. I solved it using a .forward file yesterday. Seems to work too


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Postmaster emails disappearing


> "Roy A. Urick" wrote:
> 
> > *grumble* I did the sendmail -bv , and got that it was deliverable, but
> > doesnt show its being redirected as yours does.
> > 
> > [admin admin]$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv admin
> > admin... deliverable: mailer local, user admin
> 
> Turns out we learn something new every day.
> 
> Here's what the change in the "gui" under administrator does...
> 
> it creates a line in aliases as follows:
> 
> sys:    admin, jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Note that it doesn't redirect "admin" anywhere; it just directs "sys" to
> admin and to the email address you put into the gui.
> 
> The line:
> 
> admin:  jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> was in aliases.local, that I created myself.
> 
> Note that I not only created the alias, I also created the entire
> database, aliases.local, and aliases.local.db.
> 
> Here's how:
> 
> Create the file aliases.local in the same directory as aliases.  In my
> RaQ that's /etc/mail; your mileage may vary.
> 
> In that file, add a line like this:
> 
> admin: jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> (that's a <tab> between the columns).
> 
> Then find the lines in sendmail.cf that look something like this:
> 
> O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases
> O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases.majordomo
> 
> Then add a line right under that:
> 
> O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases.local
> 
> and save sendmail.cf.
> 
> Then restart sendmail:
> 
> [root init.d]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart
> 
> Now you can add lines to aliases.local any time you want, just remember
> to restart sendmail afterwards.
> 
> Jeff
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