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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:19:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Email Directly to a program
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101290918470.2944-100000@joe.pythonvideo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010129171504.C20647@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>

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I managed to figure it out or atleast get it working.. the changes i made
to do that are as follows: 

old line  
@exactemail.com                        mymail

new line
@exactemail.com                 mymail+%1

in the virtusertable, seems like a security bit at the end of it made the
difference. what it does or means im not sure, anyone care to explain why
it worked with the +%1 appened to the end of the user name?



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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> * Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com> [20010129 15:56]: writing on the subject 'Email Directly to a program'
> Joe> I'm Currently using freebsd 3.4-Stable. I am mapped a entire domainname to
> Joe> one alias and i mapped that one alias to a email program so what happens
> Joe> is that when an email comes in to *@mydomain.com it sould go to the
> Joe> program.
> Joe> 
> Joe> This works to the most part with the exception of the email that gets sent
> Joe> bounces back with a 500 error and says "You cannot email directly to a
> Joe> program", the exact error is:
> Joe> 
> Joe> "Jan 29 06:45:21 kiki sendmail[42231] : GAA42231: <nearz@exactemail.com>... 
> Joe> Cannot mail directly to programs"
> Joe> 
> Joe> Anyone know i can email directly to programs?
> Joe> 
> Joe> (im using the copy of sendmail which came with that version at that time.
> Joe> 
> Joe> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> 
> I use these in my /etc/aliases
> 
> sos:                            "|/usr/local/bin/qpage -m -p wash"
>  
> #Stuff for MINIMALIST mailing list manager
> minimalist:                     "|/usr/local/sbin/minimalist.pl"
> winnt-dialup:                   "|/usr/local/sbin/minimalist.pl winnt-dialup"
> win9x-dialup:                   "|/usr/local/sbin/minimalist.pl win9x-dialup"
> mac-ppp:                        "|/usr/local/sbin/minimalist.pl mac-ppp"
> #                                                                             
> 
> 
> 
> Joe> 
> Joe> 
> Joe> 
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> 
> -Wash
> 
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