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Re: [cobalt-users] email alias doesn't work



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...


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