I can promise you that 1) the only authentication methods I am using are:

authmodulelist="authcram authuserdb authshadow"

and 2) I have only ONE userdb entry (read: 1 file in etc/userdb/ with 1 line in
it) and the address looks nothing like "*alias*", nor does it have the home
directory of /usr/lib/courier/etc/aliasdir/.  From what I understand of how
courier figures out how to deliver a mail, there's no reason it should be
writing to this file.  I even recursively grepped for the string "alias" in
every file in the etc directory and the only file that has that string in it is
aliases/system, and those are comment lines.

Dan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randall Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Courier Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [courier-users] aliasdir/Maildir mbox file.



Somehow, you have an entry in your userdb (or mysqldb or whatever you are
using for your user database), that is delivering "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to
the aliasdir.

Might want to list out your user database and see who has a homedir of
"/usr/lib/courier/etc/aliasdir/". Then, you might notice that the user
account starts with "alias". Which to courier means that "any email sent to
this domain that DOESN�T match another mailbox, gets filed into this
directory".

I use them sparingly, because spammers like to use dictionary attacks on
many domains. All of those would eventually end up in the alias mailbox for
a domain! oop!

I hope I am correct on this. The '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is the behavior I have on
our two servers, so I know it is at least partially true =)


Dan scribbled something like:

> So does anyone have any idea why courier is delivering to this file for users
> that don't exist?
>
> Dan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Courier Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 5:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [courier-users] aliasdir/Maildir mbox file.
>
>
>> # ls -la /usr/lib/courier/etc/aliasdir/
>> total 12
>> drwxr-xr-x    2 courier  courier      4096 May 15 10:44 .
>> drwxr-xr-x   13 courier  courier      4096 May 15 10:41 ..
>> -rw-------    1 courier  courier      2895 May 15 10:44 Maildir
>> #
>>
>> Alas, no hidden files...
>>
>> Dan
>>


-Randall Shaw



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