Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:39:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Russell Mills <russ@astrac.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Postmaster + Alias Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960605103803.11731F-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <31B5D8F4.460D@astrac.com>
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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
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