Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 08:50:27 -0700 From: Blake Swensen <blake@pyramus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: virtusertable Message-ID: <3CD00EC3.A1689CF5@pyramus.com> References: <200205011138.g41BcUr54531@router.darlow.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 <neil@darlow.co.uk> > 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3CD00EC3.A1689CF5>