The nobody alias is an alias, not a user. Please see:

http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19980203-DM01.htm
IMail - Use a wildcard alias for mail to unregistered users

Dave

In reply to 17 Apr message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

>That's what the nobody account does. It's special, in a reserved
>keyword kinda way.

>~Brad

>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rick
>Leske Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:45 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Rules.


>Tim,

>Does this mean to simply make an account called nobody then have
>the nobody account forward all its' mail to the root account?  How
>will imail know that invalid non user accounts 505/504 be sent to
>the nobody account?

>Thanks,

>Rick


>Tim van den Hoff wrote:

>>>I don't know about the first question.
>>>
>>>About the second one: you can specify an alias 'nobody' which
>>>will send all unknown email of that domain
>>>to your specified address. I let all nobody aliases forward to my
>>>central root account just to keep things clear.
>>>
>>>Hope this helps!
>>>
>>>Tim van den Hoff
>>>
>>>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>>>Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens drew
>>>Verzonden: woensdag 17 april 2002 22:10
>>>Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>Onderwerp: [IMail Forum] Rules.
>>>
>>>
>>>Is it possible for a user to just upload a rules.ima into his
>>>main users directory in order for that to take effect in all of
>>>his subsequent users' directories? What I mean is this, say a
>>>user just wants to upload a file that has all of his subject
>>>based filters in it, that will delete messages with that subject,
>>>can they just upload a rules.ima to that location?
>>>
>>>Also an unrelated question: if a user sends email to an invalid
>>>address @ this domain can we have it catch all of that mail and
>>>put it into its own mailbox..
>>>
>>>like lets say someone sends email to
>>>
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>obviously that username is invalid, but we want to trap the mail
>>>anyway so can we have it drop that into a mailbox?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>-Drew
>>>
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