Topic: "mail" Pseudonym

[grog]

On a previous SMEServer i had the pseudonym "mail" redirected to a normal mail account as alot of our mail comes in as mail@ourdomain.com.

Unfortunatly, i forgot how i did this and cant seem to find the file again i did it to. Either i'm missing something, or it's changed since older versions.

Can anybody let me know where i change this.

Regards

Glen Greig

[cactus]

On a previous SMEServer i had the pseudonym "mail" redirected to a normal mail account as alot of our mail comes in as mail@ourdomain.com.

Unfortunatly, i forgot how i did this and cant seem to find the file again i did it to. Either i'm missing something, or it's changed since older versions.

Can anybody let me know where i change this.

Regards

Glen Greig

The name mail is an internal system name reserved for the mail server and is therefore not elegible for a username or mailaccount. You might be able to tweak it using the command line as I can create a user mail there using the following command

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db accounts set mail user The rest of the settings can be set per the server-manager, including mail delivery options, such as forwarding. I don't know if there are other consequences and implications, maybe one of the developers can comment on this

[tariqf]

Hi I have the same problem on my 6.01 box. Did you find a resolution?

[JonB]

Grog,

On SME7 in the Pseudonyms panel you would create a pseudonym of
mail@mydomain.com and point to the user you want to receive the mail.


Jon

[tariqf]

unfortunately jonb's suggestion does not work on sme6 please can someone advise what I should do?

[cactus]

unfortunately jonb's suggestion does not work on sme6 please can someone advise what I should do?

Did you also try my suggestion earlier in this thread?

[grog]

Grog,

On SME7 in the Pseudonyms panel you would create a pseudonym of
mail@mydomain.com and point to the user you want to receive the mail.


Jon

Thanks, this worked perfect.

INteresting that the name "mail" will not work, but the address "mail@domain.com" does work.

Anyway, i'm not complaining, all working perfectly..

[grog]

     

Stoped working.

I had a forward file in /var/qmail/aliases before, since the pseudonym seemed to work, i deleted those files, and now things have stoped working.

I put those files back, and it seems to work again..

It seems the files in /var/qmail/aliases need to be there and be valid, but it still ignores the addresses and uses the one setup as a pseudonym in the web interface..

All very confusing..