[BlueOnyx:02895] Re: Question regarding aliases / usernames (i.e. sales, info, marketing)

[Christoph Schneeberger]

Did you create an account named info, marketing, support or sales or did
you just add the aliases ?

Christoph

Jimmy Gross wrote:
> support may be reserved but sales, info, and marketing are not. I just
> tested me email with those three and they work fine. I have mine set up as
> alias accounts and my user account.
>
> 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 11:42 AM
> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:02893] Re: Question regarding aliases / usernames
> (i.e. sales, info, marketing)
>
>
> Hello Jimmy,
>
> Thanks for your reply, I may have been a bit confusing in my statements
> I realize. I have no two sales users on the same server, I just found
> out that BlueOnyx allows to create a user named i.e. marketing or sales
> or support and that user will never receive mail. At least that's how
> interpret my findings. Therefor I think BO should not
> allow you to create users named marketing, support, info and all others
> mentioned in /etc/mail/aliases because those users will never receive
> mail if Im reading the sendmail config the right way.
>
> I reproduced this on another BO Server by just adding a user marketing
> to the site I use for the mail account subscribed to this list:
> box.telemedia.ch, so now if I send mail to the new user
> marketing at box.telemedia.ch it ends up in the server admins mailbox.
> I mentioned BlueQuartz, becuase BlueQuartz does not have those Aliases,
> therefor the marketing and sales and whatever usernames worked as
> mailboxes there.
>
> Christoph
>
>
> Jimmy Gross wrote:
>   
>> 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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