Re: [LI] postmaster & email aliases

[gauravs@xxxxxxxxxxx]

You forgot one thing. Run /usr/bin/newaliases i.e. if you are running sendmail.




"S.Krishna" <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on 12/10/99 08:22:49 PM

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Of course,
edit the file /etc/aliases
and put in the reqd alias
for example
kris:  srikrishna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

regards
krishna

> Hi Guys,
>
> In Postmaster (windows) we can create Email aliases.
> For Ex. :
>          if my pop account is rajesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> then using postmaster I can give different email aliases like :
>         santosh <rajesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>         santoshi<rajesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> etc.
>
> Like this using one POP account I can create many email aliases and
> the email can be sent instead of rajesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to say
> santosh<rajesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> etc. This is possible under postmaster.
>
> I am surprised how email address of the format santosh<rajesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> is accepted by email server because only rajesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is present on
> the server but there is no account of Santosh and Santoshi.
>






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