At 11:16 PM 9/14/2001, you wrote:
> > > 1) Are there any more reserved email addresses I should know about (I
>only
> > > discovered the admin@ when clients stopped receiving their mail when
>they
> > > decided to use my services - no a good look)
> > >
> > > 2) Does Sun intend to fix this
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > gareth
> > I believe that the reserved email addresses are stored in two files:
> > /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases and /etc/virtusertable or
>/etc/mail/virtusertable (depending on
> > your product. Usually, reserved email addresses are admin, root,
>sys....etc...
>
>There are no "official" reserved e-mail addresses...Sendmail will look in
>aliases first, then virtusertable, then the passwd file.
>
> > Actually, by modifying /etc/aliases, I believe you can set your own
>aliases...but this entails a
> > bending of the warrenty.
> >
>
> > This is more of a limitation of Linux and Sendmail....so I don't figure
>Sun will be tackling the
> > issue anytime soon. It would be nice however, for Sun to have some
>documentation on the subject.
>
>Hmm. There are no limitations in sendmail and linux. It is a limitation
>with Sun Cobalt's GUI/special sauce whatever, it is a bug pure and simple.
Why is it when something doesn't work the way you want it, it is a
bug. Any site can use the alias admin. At least my server does. Cobalt
made a decision as the system was designed for those of us that don't know
enough how to set up a system on our own. In doing so they made the
decision that every site needs an admin email alias and they send it to
whom ever is designated as siteadmin. I don't think this is a bug. Then
again, I guess you could use a generic system instead of one built with a GUI.
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