Hi Michael Fuller,
Here's what I think may solve the "broadcast" issue.
I think you may have to make use of the mailforwarding address attribute in
place of looking at building the solution on mailalternetaddress attribute.

First create a mail account for the "boardcast" with the "mail" attribute
having the value of something like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" then create multiple
"mailforwarding" attributes (under this same "boardcast" account) each
having a single value of the email address one of the users of whom you'd
like to receive a copy of any email sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
The expected behaviour will be that any email sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" will
be sent to each of the mailforwardings' attributes email values.
And there will be no email delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s maildir.

Allan Kamau.
Web Developer
ICIPE.org
Nairobi Kenya


-----Original Message-----
From: Ace Suares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 20 February 2003 07:12
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help on mailalternateaddress

> Hello everybody,
>
> We are in the process of migrating our mail server to Qmail + Qmail-LDAP
> patch. I have created a mailalternate address for all users. When I send a
> message to that id, Qmail bounces it back with this message
>
> Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
>
>
> The intention is to use a account to sort of "broadcast" Admin messages to
> all users. How to get this right ?

If you did something like:

mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailaternateaddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

....

mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailalternateaddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

etc etc

then it won't work: mail + mailaternateaddressen needs to be unique !
whenever qmail-ldap detects two or more THE SAME emailaddresses it reverts
to
bouncing.

Greetings,
ace

> Somebody Please help
>
> Regards,
> Michael Fuller,
> Network Administrator - RAILNET,
> Signal and Telecommunication Department,
> Southern Railway,
> Park Town, Chennai - 600 003.
> Phone: +91-44-25331962, +91-44-25348123 / 627
> E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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