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Re: [cobalt-security] email forwarding aliases for non-users
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] email forwarding aliases for non-users
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:15:37 -0800
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
Mez wrote:
> I have no file in /etc/mail called aliases, the only file called aliases i
> have is in /etc but if i try and add:
>
> dummyuser1 <tab> email@address
>
> to /etc/aliases then type "newaliases" it goes on about a missing colon.
>
> Any ideas what the prob is?
Adding the colon as some replies have already told you, works fine.
However, as we discovered a few weeks ago when we had to do just exactly
this kind of forward, under contract, for an ISP that had just gone out
of business, you can do it all in virtusertable:
dummyuser1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<tab>dummyser2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jeff
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