[BlueOnyx:07535] Re: email alias issues

[Gerald Waugh]

Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Gerald,
> 
>> /var/log/messages looks OK with this exception
>>
>> Jun 22 07:10:16 s8 cced(smd)[31378]: client 6:[48:29419]: SET  54 .
>> Email "aliases" "=" "&user1&"
>>
>> not sure why it reads Email "aliases" "=" "&user1&"
> 
> That's fine. An account can have multiple email aliasses and they're all 
> stored into the same database object in the backend. So if a user had several 
> aliases like "info", "contact" and "webmaster", it would read like this:
> 
> SET  54 . Email "aliases" "=" "&info&contact&webmaster&"
> 
> The "&" characters here are used as separators to allow the GUI backend to 
> hash out the aliases if there are more than one. And yes, if there is only one 
> alias defined, it will also be wrapped in "&" characters.
> 
> So that alias problem you're having is not really related or caused by this. 
> Do you by chance use C-Name records for the DNS of this site? If you use C-
> Name records, aliases will be ignored as Sendmail then cannot lookup the right 
> domain name part of the recipient email address to match the recipients 
> account with the alias database.
> 

I'm brain dead, the client's server has been in use for a year or so and
working fine. then all of a sudden email aliases stopped working, but
all else was OK.

The DNS was OK, but your response caused me to check the Email Server
Alias, which was not initialized. Now email aliases work. <pounding head
on desk>

Thanks Michael

</pounding head on desk>
-- 
Gerald