Re: [cobalt-users] RaQXTR - missing postmaster account

[Bruce Timberlake <Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

Tim Skipper wrote:
> Bruce Timberlake wrote:
>
> > Tim Skipper wrote:
> >
> > > My RaQ XTR is missing a postmaster account, which I think explains
> > > some of the e-mail weirdnes I've seen of late.
> > >
> > > How can I create one?  The web interface won't let me make a
> > > postmaster alias, so I presume this requires some under the hood
> > > command line stuff.
> >
> > Nope. postmaster aliases are created by default. look in the
> > virtusertable file to see where they are being sent - to admin I
>
> think
>
> > is the default.
>
>
> Bruce,
>
> virtusertable contains a bunch of lines like this:
>
> postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   postmaster
>
> Which I read as sending e-mail to the postmaster account.  If I send
> mail to postmaster@ any domain on my XTR it bounces with a 550 error.
> If I try and sendmail locally via SSH to postmaster, it says
> "postmaster... User unknown".

In /etc/mail/aliases, 'postmaster' is aliased to 'root'

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Bruce Timberlake
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