[BlueOnyx:02889] Re: Question regarding aliases / usernames (i.e. sales, info, marketing)

[Jimmy Gross]

Hi Christopher,

You can only have one unique user per server. For example, there can only be
one user named sales. But, you can alias sales to any user on a single
virtual site. For example, domain1.com can have an alias for sales as well
as domain2.com. But, you cannot have two users on the same domain setup
witht he alias sales.

When you are importing sites from a server using CMU to your BO box, if the
user already exist on the BO box then CMU will normally add a "1" to the end
of the user name. For example, if sales already exist on the BO box then the
imported user will be created as sales1 during import. This can be changed
or modified in the CMU config file prior to import. This will usually be an
issue when you are migrating two severs to a BO box.

jimmy

-----Original Message-----
From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it
[mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it]On Behalf Of Christoph Schneeberger
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:46 AM
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
Subject: [BlueOnyx:02888] Question regarding aliases / usernames (i.e.
sales,info, marketing)


Hello,

I see the same symptoms as explained in

http://www.blueonyx.it/pipermail/blueonyx/2009-May/001169.html

However the solution seems different for me as the DNS is fine.

The situation is that I imported a site from a Bluequartz with a user
named "sales". If I comment the sales alias in the alias file and run
newaliases the mails get delivered to the correct user (at least
sendmail -bv sales at customer.com implies then so in contrast to having
the sales alias the mails are delivered to admin which imho is correct
behaviour as far as it concerns sendmail).

I then went ahead, opened an account marketing in a different domain
exposing no problems yet, this worked fine but mails to
marketing at different-domain.com now go to admin too. I first thought its
just a problem of the import, ignoring the fact that sales, marketing,
info etc. are forbidden as usernames but at least marketing worked as
username, but not as mailbox/email-address.

Shouldn't be usernames that exist in the alias file be forbidden to
create new accounts with (i.e. info, root, marketing, postmaster
whatever)? I'd never name an account info or sales btw, but every
customer tends to do so.

On the other hand, I can't imagine that nobody else has come across this
problem yet and that my customers are the only ones using info, sales
etc. as login names. So I am pretty sure I am doing something wrong, but
I can't find at which point.

Thanks in advance for any pointers/tips/hints!

Cheers,
Christoph Schneeberger

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