From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 10:39:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA18930 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA18921 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:39:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA11963; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:39:57 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:39:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Russell Mills cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Postmaster + Alias In-Reply-To: <31B5D8F4.460D@astrac.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Russell Mills wrote: > I am using FreeBSD v2.1 with sendmail & the POP3 Mail server. > Now everything works fine e-mail can be sent & received but > if someone outside is to send mail and make a mistake with the > users alias the mail will not find its way to the Postmaster. > > ie. r~ss@astrac.com I don't think the destination system's postmaster gets messages when an invalid username is used. Only the sender gets the nastygram. > also how can I give user a more detailed e-mail ID. example:- > > currently:- russ@astrac.com would like to be:- russ.mills@astrac.com Either: 1) Change your real username (big pain) or define a mail alias: russ.mills: russ run newaliases and you're set. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major