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tbarlow · 02-16-2007, 04:23 AM

Hello Guys

Well I am not quite a newbie but, I have not had a linux box for a long time, and thought that I would sent one back up but, I am haveing a slite brain laps how, I set up send mail to recive mail for postmaster and abuse, I know it has to do with aliases but I don't rember. I try to run dnsreport.com on my server and it says I have an error, on that part and a few other but I figure I would hit one prob at a time, so can someone help thanks

Sincerly
Terry

billymayday · 02-16-2007, 08:48 PM

What exactly is the error, and what d your mail logs say?

docalton · 02-16-2007, 08:49 PM

The aliases file is how you would do this.

vi /etc/aliases

add something like

postmaster: <some account>
abuse: <some other account>

save then run newaliases to update the actual files

Hope this helps