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aliases problem
I think this is a problem, but I'm not 100% sure yet, I'm still trying to figure it out. Here's the scenario. In virtusertable I have set up an alias for a username, like this
name@domain.com alias1
Then in the aliases file I have set up this
alias1: localacct, user@anotherdomain.com
anotherdomain.com is the domain I'm setting up to run the webmail on, and the localacct is a local pop mailbox where mail should regularly go. I'm setting this up so if for example I'm somewhere I can't check pop (I know I can use the pop feature in gmail, but let's ignore that for now), that copies of the emails will be still be delivered to gmail. I'm not sure where in the header, if anywhere, this alias would ever get found, even more so when everything is on the same system. But no matter what, the mail doesn't end up where it shoud in gmail. Is this a limitation of the software or a bug? And yes incoming.pl is in cron and the messages are getting delivered to the proper pop accounts. And yes I have run newaliases and my mkvu script which rebuilds the db's for both of these files.
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Re: [JerryP] aliases problem In reply to
I tried something like this as well. I think that if you use aliases in this way the gmail account does not end up in the header of the message. At least not in a way that gmail can decipher. I haven't figured out a fix yet, but love to hear of one if someone has.

Basically the message gets aliased to gmail which thinks it is to name@domain.com, in your case, and has no matching user to deliver the message to (I think).

Michael Coyne
seaturtle.org
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any idea where these messages end up, i see that they go into the mailbox and incoming.pl clears it out, but I'm not sure where they go then...
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I believe I got them as "undeliverable" bounces. Sent to the admin address.

Michael Coyne
seaturtle.org