[Citadel Support] Re: Mail.Aliases file

[flyingfsck]

>Sat Oct 11 2008 17:51:49 EDT from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Subject: Mail.Aliases file
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>Hi guys,
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>How does the mail.aliases file work?
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>I tried something like this:
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>[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>and put the file in /usr/local/citadel/mail.aliases
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>However, Citadel doesn't see it and a new message addressed to 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] gets an unknown user alert.  Restarting citserver didn't
>help either.
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>Any ideas?
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>Cheers,
>
>Flyingfsck  



OK, to answer my own question:
 * The mail.aliases feature has been removed.  The documentation wasn't
updated.
 * To beautify a room name, create a user account with the alias name, then
login as that dummy user and use the mail filter feature to Move all messages
to the target room. 
 * Note that the Forward filter doesn't work.  The Move filter does however
work.
 * The Move filter plus a second Keep filter does the same thing as what a
Forward filter should have done.