I am still having an issue where the alias "mail" cannot be
used. Does anyone have any suggestions? This account was subscribed
to a lot of important things that the user does not have a definitive
list of and so doesn't want to lose anything.
Any help would be much appreciated.
-Rashid
At 08:38 AM 8/31/2006, you wrote:
>I took a look at what you have here and actually I am having issue
>with an alias called "mail". However, you got me thinking. So I
>poked around and found:
>
>/usr/sausalito/handlers/base/userhandle_user.pl
>
>Inside of it I found:
>
>my %illegal_usernames = map { $_ => 1 } qw /
> root bin daemon adm lp sync shutdown halt news mail uucp operator
> games gopher ftp nobody dbus rpm htt nscd vcsa ntp wnn ident canna
> haldaemon rpc named amanda sshd postgres pvm netdump pcap radvd
> quagga mailnull smmsp pegasus apache mailman webalizer xfs cyrus
> radiusd ldap exim mysql fax squid dovecot postfixgdm
> pop alterroot httpd chiliasp qmail share-guest majordomo
> anonymous guest Root Admin ROOT ADMIN
>/;
>
>So I removed mail.
>
>I also went to /etc/mail
>
>I modified aliases and commented out the alias mail:
>
>#mail: root
>
>I restarted sendmail and cced but still no good. Deperate, I
>rebooted in case it was another service that needed restarting. Didn't work.
>
>So now, I still have the same issue and trying to desperately to
>find a means to have the same mailing list or alias I had previously
>on an earlier version BQ system.
>
>The error I am getting when I try to add an alias is:
>
>Sorry, the email alias, mail, is already in use on this system.
>Please choose another.
>
>Hope someone can lead me from this point.
>
>-Rashid
>
>At 02:49 AM 8/29/2006, you wrote:
>>I think this is basically what you are looking for:
>>
>>Remove admin user from defaults
>> pico /usr/sausalito/handlers/base/vsite/Vsite.pm
>>
>> Change this:
>> %DefaultAliases = (
>> "MAILER-DAEMON", 1,
>> "postmaster", 1,
>> "sys", 1,
>> "nobody", 1,
>> "root", 1,
>> 'admin', 1
>> );
>> To This:
>> %DefaultAliases = (
>> "MAILER-DAEMON", 1,
>> "postmaster", 1,
>> "sys", 1,
>> "nobody", 1,
>> "root", 1
>> );
>>
>>At 03:40 AM 29/08/2006, you wrote:
>>>I think there was some discussion on this issue previously. I
>>>have a situation in which I migrated a site from one BQ system to
>>>another. The newer one is using a more recent version of Brian's
>>>CD. At any rate, the website had a mailing list by the name of
>>>mail (at mark) domainname.com. However, mail is evidently one of the
>>>reserved aliases. How can I overcome this (I only need to do this
>>>for one site)? This is a critical address because this address is
>>>used by the user for many things. Not being able to do this will
>>>cause some severe hardship.
>>>
>>>I tried going to /etc/aliases and commenting out mail and the
>>>typing new aliaes and restarting sendmail but that didn't seem to work.
>>>
>>>Hopefully someone has a quick fix.
>>>
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>>---------------------------------
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>>
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