Creating aliases

1999-08-24 Thread Joel Gatdula Pira
Hi! I am still new with qmail and I can't create an alias for an user. Say, the user name is ABC and I want him to have an alias of DEC. DEC is not a valid username. What i did was to echo ABC .qmail-DEC. Is this right? When I sent an email to DEC@localhost, I get an error. Any help would

Re: Creating aliases

1999-08-24 Thread Bongo
- Original Message - From: Joel Gatdula Pira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QMail Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 11:17 AM Subject: Creating aliases Hi! I am still new with qmail and I can't create an alias for an user. Say, the user name is ABC and I

Re: Creating aliases

1999-08-24 Thread Chris McCarthy
What I do is echo "ABC" .qmail-DEC This works for me. I think it supports the sendmail form of /etc/alias too. At the risk of being flamed, I think sendmail's method is neater. ..Chris. Joel Gatdula Pira wrote: Hi! I am still new with qmail and I can't create an alias for an user. Say,

Re: Creating aliases

1999-08-24 Thread Joel Gatdula Pira
I was able to create an alias however it does not work when I use mutt when I use the alias. I get an error no such user. But with sqwebmail, I worked fine. Any ideas? Joel Gatdula Pira writes: Hi! I am still new with qmail and I can't create an alias for an user. Say, the user name

Re: Creating aliases

1999-08-24 Thread Daniel
Joel Gatdula Pira a écrit : What i did was to echo ABC .qmail-DEC. Hi, I think you should add the hostnome for the address since qmail is able to handle same usernames with different hostnames: echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" .qmail-DEC in the folder /var/qmail/aliases Daniel --

Re: Creating aliases

1999-08-24 Thread Russell Nelson
Joel Gatdula Pira writes: I am still new with qmail and I can't create an alias for an user. Say, the user name is ABC and I want him to have an alias of DEC. DEC is not a valid username. What i did was to echo ABC .qmail-DEC. When qmail is searching for a .qmail filename, it