Re: [cobalt-users] removing the www on aliases - openwebmail

["William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:23 AM 08/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
> Good day everyone,
>
> Okay I did it, I remembered to search the archives first to see if I 
> missed a point in last weeks threads, and I couldn't find it. Boy do I 
> feel better now.
>
> Removing the www in the FROM in openwebmail using the OWM-fix.0.3.pl 
> script worked great, for the *real name*, but it did not change the aliases.
>
> In openwebmail setup, you can click a drop-down and get a list of your 
> email aliases so you can be a real person and not a user ID. But the 
> aliases all show the www still
>
> I have user ID: username who has an alias george - if I send from 
> userrname I get username@xxxxxxxxxx from george I get george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Did I mess up something running the OWM-fix.0.3.pl, or do I have to do 
> something differently?
>
> One other note - when you run the OWM-fix.0.3.pl it changes all the 
> default FROM's in openwebmail back to username where I had george selected 
> previously so I had to do another setup on each user after running it.  So 
> if I add this as a daily cron I am going to really start pissing people 
> off. Any ideas on that one also??
>
> Thanks,
> Jale

This works for all users, and does not disrupt prefs:

fix OWM to omit 'www' from email addresses

file: /etc/cron.hourly/update_vut_owm.sh

        #!/bin/bash
        # create a current copy of the VirtUserTable for OpenWebmail
        cp /etc/mail/virtusertable /etc/mail/virtusertable.owm
        perl -pi -e "s/www\.//g"  /etc/mail/virtusertable.owm

Then Add this line to openwebmail.conf
  virtusertable           /etc/mail/virtusertable.owm

No more www and no upset users!
- Bill




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