On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Ian Douglas wrote:
> Hey. Tried to send this message yesterday but haven't seen it come thorugh
> yet. I apologize if both of these make it to the list.
>
> Can anyone describe for me how to create a catch-all Email address? ie: if
> someone sends mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the joe.smith account (or
> alias) does not exist, how would I catch that message and despoit it in
> another account? Basically, I want to use it to catch misspelled user
> names instead of bouncing back everything that doesn't match a user name
> or alias.
>
> I thought there was a clever alias trick I had seen on another system, but
> it doesn't seem to work under Mandrake 6.0:
>
> *: root
>
>
> Anyhow, any help would be very much appreciated.
did you rerun the aliases command when you updated the aliases file? If
not, it did not make it into the sendmail database.
bug
