[BlueOnyx:15699] Re: postmaster redirects to 'admin'

[Brian M]

Thanks guys for the replies.
I'd noticed the behavior but couldn't find where that alias was being set,
I borked my bash 'find'.

Much appreciated!

Brian.



On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it>
wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> > One thing I don't yet see how to change:  mails sent to 'postmaster' are
> > accepted by the BOnyx box but end up in admin's mbox.
>
> This has *always* been the case on BlueOnyx.
>
> Postmaster is an account you're required to have as per RFC definitions.
> So we make sure that all postmaster related emails to any domain ends up
> in the admin mailbox.
>
> Because if it wouldn't, then you would be able to have sites without
> users and these sites then have no postmaster alias. We also would then
> need to be super picky and need to somehow make sure that you (as the
> admin) somehow make sure that all sites have at minimum one user and
> that this user has the postmaster alias for that Vsite.
>
> We can't really do that as it would be super-restrictive to the way
> people set up their boxes and their sites.
>
> Hence: All "postmaster" related email goes to "admin".
>
> [root at kosh ~]# cat /etc/mail/aliases|grep postmaster
> mailer-daemon:  postmaster
> postmaster:     root
> info:           postmaster
>
> There you go. Delete or modify that alias at your own risk.
>
> --
> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
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