Topic: need to create pseudonym for "mail"

[tariqf]

I have a problem in that I collect mail from my pop3 account which goes to mail@mydomain.com. I want to use my sme 6.01 box to collect this mail but it will not let me create a "mail" pseudonym because of the existing mail system account.

I have seen this post http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32425.0

but this dooes not help me because there is no "db" command in my sme 6.01 server.

How can I get around this?
(I cannot change my mail provider's settings).

[raem]

tariqf

> ....there is no "db" command in my sme 6.01 server..

Yes there is.
On sme 7 the db command is a shortened version of
/sbin/e-smith/db
which is what you would use on sme6

[tariqf]

ok thanks I can now run the command

/sbin/e-smith/db accounts set mail user

it goes through fine but I have no idea what it has done! I though it would change the mail user to "user" but I still cannot add "mail" as a pseudonym.

Please can someone tell me what this command does and how I use it to enable me to use a "mail" pseudonym?

[JonB]

Tariqf,

Read this howto by Ray Mitchell.

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs//rmitchell/smeserver/howto/virtual%20domain%20email%20aliases%20HOWTO%20for%20sme%20server.htm

 It will tell you how to create a virtual domain email address, in your case mail@yourdomain.com and deliver it to one of your users.

Jon

[tariqf]

many thanks jonb that's solved my problem