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From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (Igor Vladim Roshchin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mail Alias + Postmaster problem
Date: 5 Jun 1996 19:29:22 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Russell Mills (russ@astrac.com) wrote:
: Hi everyone,
: Hopefully this should be an easy one to answer!.
: I am using FreeBSD v2.1 with sendmail & the POP3 Mail server.
: Now everything works fine e-mail can be sent & received but
: if someone outside is to send mail and make a mistake with the
: users alias the mail will not find its way to the Postmaster.
I didn't try it myself, but it seems to me that
uncommenting OPPostmaster string in /etc/sendmail.cf
should help you.
Make sure that you have alias postmaster in /etc/aliases set to
some particular user, user postmaster in /etc/passwd
Don't forget to restart sendmail, or make it to reread the configuration file.
: ie. r~ss@astrac.com
: also how can I give a user a detailed e-mail ID. example:-
: currently:- russ@astrac.com would like to be:- russ.mills@astrac.com
put an alias russ.mills in /etc/aliases
(don't forget to run newalias after that)
:
: Thanks....
Best Regards
IgoR
aka StR@komkon.org
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Igor Roshchin
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University of Illinois FAX : (217) 333-9819
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