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[Citadel Support] Re: Mail.Aliases file

davew
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:40:57 -0700

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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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>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.
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The mail.aliases feature for beautifying room names does work.

The file is mail.aliases and in a default install it will be in
/usr/local/citadel/network

You are missing the network directory from your path.

Also the format for aliases I use is:

[EMAIL PROTECTED], room_drafts