Jeremy Glick wrote: > > Thanks for the ideas people. In looking through what everyone is saying, it > appears I have everything setup correctly. I set up each site in the gui > and the email aliases are different from any usernames I am using. > > The problem seems to be with the way cobalt is putting the aliases in the > /etc/mail/virtualuserstable. For each alias I enter, I see.. > alias@xxxxxxxxxxxx user. I don't think the "www" should be in there. I'm > not entering the "www" when I add the alias. I just add the alias name by > itself. That actually _is_ correct behavior, as incoming mail addressed to user@xxxxxxxxxx gets rewritten internally by the sendmail rules to be user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (or user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if the host != www). Then user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is mapped to a local username, and eventually delivered to the incoming mail spool for that user/forwarded/etc... -- Bruce Timberlake Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc. E: bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx T: 877-718-3569 / x69369
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