Re: [cobalt-users] Catch All Email Addresses

[Richard Proctor <Richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald Waugh:

> look in /etc/mail/virtusertable
> under
> # catch-all aliases
> make sure the catah all actually was written

They are setup as I would expect.

Liam Delahunty:

> this may be a stupid question but have you set up the user account in the
> virtual site for domain.com? (Rather than a user account under a different
> virtual domain.)

Yes I have accounts setup.  I have it running quite happilly apart from
the catch-all.  

I have sales@xxxxxxxxxx setup which works, and wanted to do a catch-all
for that user, (I have had to put many different aliases at the moment 
- not a very satisfactory solution).

What is the answer?

Richard


> > I have been trying to setup a catch all email address on one of my
> > domains on my raq4.
> > 
> > With Web Server Aliases set to "www.domain.com, domain.com" I can get
> > ordinary mail to mailboxes and forwarding to work. I have a user setup
> > with an alias of "@www.domain.com". mail to junk@xxxxxxxxxx gets bounced
> > "rewrite excessive recursion (max 50), ruleset canonify".  This is how I
> > have setup all the domains so far.
> > 
> > I have found an example on the web where the mail aliases are not set,
> > but this results in any email including that to explicit users being
> > rejected "Relaying Rejected".
> > 
> > How do you setup mail properly to do sensible things?  This can't be too
> > dificult can it?   
> > 
> > Richard

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