From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 8:43: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stella.pyramus.com (stella.pyramus.com [206.129.206.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC3D37B428 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 08:42:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pyramus.com (dark-star.pyramus.com [206.129.206.6]) by stella.pyramus.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g41FlDm85101 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 08:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blake@pyramus.com) Message-ID: <3CD00EC3.A1689CF5@pyramus.com> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 08:50:27 -0700 From: Blake Swensen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en]C-DIAL (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: virtusertable References: <200205011138.g41BcUr54531@router.darlow.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yeah... What we do in this situation is to create both a virtual user AND an alias. virtual user: sales@virtualdomain.com vsales Aliases vsales: tom,frank,chester@aol.com,sally Peace, Blake Neil Darlow wrote: > > On 05/01/2002 at 02:19:14, Ian Barnes said: > > in my virtusertable file i would like it that when an email is sent to a > > specific email address, it should be delivered to a few local accounts. > > > > how do i set that up, would i just add each user in the file, separated by > > commas or semi-colons ? > > The usefulness of /etc/mail/virtusertable is in translating e-mail addresses > from one format to another, e.g. delivering wildcarded domain addresses to > multiple local mailboxes. > > Although what you describe can be done using virtusertable, this is a good > example for the use of /etc/mail/aliases. > > Look at /etc/mail/aliases for the required syntax. You can put multiple names > on the right-hand-side of an alias separated by a space. Placing a comma > after a name on the right-hand-side of an alias prevents that entry being > parsed as an alias itself. > > Regards, > Neil Darlow M.Sc. > -- > 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow > GPG Fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message