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[Citadel Support] Re: Mail.Aliases file

flyingfsck
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:31:39 -0700

>Sun Oct 12 2008 08:38:34 EDT from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Subject: Re: Mail.Aliases file
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>>>How does the mail.aliases file work?
>>>
>>>I tried something like this:
>>>
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>>and put the file in /usr/local/citadel/mail.aliases
>>>
>>>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
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>You are missing the network directory from your path.
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>Also the format for aliases I use is:
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>[EMAIL PROTECTED], room_drafts
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OK, tried that and it works, so the documentation is somewhat wrong.

F.