Re: [cobalt-users] GUI- Email Server Aliases with www.

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris wrote:

> In the GUI refuses the cobalt Email Server Aliases with "www".
> ( mail. xyz.com, xyz.com is possible - but  www.xyz.com is not possible ???)
> 
> In the status line appears the following error message:
> "Email server alias www.xyz.com is invalid"
> 
> Why???
> Please help me ! Thanks

Your RaQ already receives mail at www.domain.com as a default when you
set up the domain www.domain.com.  Setting up an alias to allow it to
receive email at that domain will install duplicate conflicting entries
in /etc/mail/virtusertable, which may result in errors in sendmail email
handling.  So I'd see this as a fix.  The purpose of an alias is so mail
sent to another domain is properly handled...

For example, we've got www.nobaloney.net set up as a domain on our RaQ. 
"www" as the Host Name and "nobaloney.net" as the Domain Name.

We were recently able to obtain "nobaloney.com".  Rather than set up
another website, here's what we did:

1) we set up dns to point nobaloney.com (and all it's permutations) to
the same IP#s as nobaloney.net.

2) We set up nobaloney.net, www.nobaloney.com, and nobaloney.com as Web
Server Aliases, so no matter if the public types in www.nobaloney.net,
www.nobaloney.net (this one occurs by default), nobaloney.com, or
www.nobaloney.com, they'll all get to the www.nobaloney.net website.

3) We set up nobaloney.net in Email Server Aliases, to tell the RaQ to
accept mail for the domain name alone, for example
"jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx", and deliver it to the users set up at the
www.nobaloney.net site.

4) We added nobaloney.com in Email Server Aliases, to tell the Raq to
also accept mail for the domain name "nobaloney.com and deliver it to
the users set up at the www.nobaloney.net site.

As a further explanation, if you send an email to jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
it will now get delivered to the user jblists at the www.nobaloney.net
website.

So, for anything you put into the Email Server Alias (presuming DNS is
properly set up so the email gets to the box), anyuser@xxxxxxxxx will
end up in the email boxes for the same user at hostname.domain.com
(hostname is usually set as "www").

So you do NOT put your hostname (again, usually "www") in the Email
Server Aliases field.

Jeff
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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux and Cobalt/Sun/RaQ Consulting
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