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Date:  Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:46:11 -0700
From:  "Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc." <kenmarcus (at mark) precisionweb.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:05896] Re: Email alias 'mail'
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <03dd01c69a22$58b39ed0$6700a8c0@OfficeKen>
References:  <20060627104714.GA94299 (at mark) xs4all.nl>
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From: "Maurice de Laat" 

> If I try to give a user an e-mail alias 'mail' I get the error:
> "Sorry, the email alias, mail, is already in use on this system. Please 
> choose another. Email aliases were not created for this user."
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the alias 'mail' is nuot in use for this site. If I 
> give the user a catchall, mail addressed to 'mail@domainname', is 
> correctly delivered to the user.
> 
> However, because of the amount of spam a users receives when using a 
> catchall, I rather remove the catchall and add the 'mail' as an alias.
> 
> How can I do this?
> 
> Thank you
> -- 
> Maurice de Laat

Maurice

pico -w /etc/mail/virtusertable

#add a line like below with their actual domain and user values
mail (at mark) www.theirdomain.com   their-actual-username

#Control X to save that file.

Then
makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable.db <  /etc/mail/virtusertable


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Ken Marcus
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net