[lug] virtusertable

Shannon Johnston sjohnston at cavion.com
Wed Dec 18 16:38:01 MST 2002


postmaster is a basic system alias. It's in the aliases file.
By default, all mail headed for 'postmaster' goes to root.


Shannon Johnston


On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 15:57, jdavis wrote:
> hello,
>   Today I was playing with sendmail's virtusertable. I tried having
> all incoming mail without a valid local user,sent to 
> the user I added - postmaster. However  all the mail not
> claimed by a user was sent to root instead. So I added user
> support and modified virtusertable and the unclaimed mail now goes
> to support. Have I done something funny in my conf
> to cause this.
> 
> 
> looks like this (sendmail8 on box www.taproot.bz)
> 
> bub at fresh_word.net	jd at taproot.bz
> @fresh_word.net		  postmaster at taproot.bz
> 
> 
> thanks,
> jd
> 
> 
> 
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