I'm trying to determine how to control where mail gets forward to when mailed to
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (one of my hosts).
1. africaalive.org is a CNAME for virtual.jhuccp.org. (This seems to be backwards in
the DNS, where looking up virtual.jhuccp.org determines that the canonical name is
africaalive.org. Odd...) In the DNS records, this is recorded as "africaalive.org
internet address = 162.129.225.199". This is the IP address of virtual.jhuccp.org.
However, there are no MX records in the DNS for either africaalive.org or
virtual.jhuccp.org. There is an MX record for jhuccp.org. This is my first question,
how is mail to africaalive.org even finding us to begin with? This address does work
correctly.
2. In reading the qmail manuals, I learned the importance of
/var/qmail/control/rcpthost and virtualdomains. Here's the content of these files:
virtual:/var/qmail/control # cat rcpthosts
localhost
virtual.jhuccp.org
africaalive.org
virtual:/var/qmail/control # cat virtualdomains
africaalive.org:africaalive.org
virtual:/var/qmail/control #
>From my reading, the first value in the virtualdomains files identifies a local user
>to send mail to which arrived addressed to the second value. However, I have no user
>"africaalive.org" on host virtual. There's also no /etc/aliases file, though I do
>have an /etc/aliases.db file. I can't figure out how to get into the aliases.db file
>to see if there's an alias for africaalive.org in there.
I'm not very familiar with qmail and probably haven't read the documentation as
throughly as I should, but none of this is making sense. Would someone please give me
a hand and point me in the right direction to figure this out.
Thanks for your help.
-Kevin Zembower
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E. Kevin Zembower
Unix Administrator
Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, MD 21202
410-659-6139
