aliases

depaul · 07-23-2003, 03:45 PM

Hello,

i want to create aliases for email
in the file aliases at the end i added
first.lastname: first.lastname@domain.com
i do newaliases
i send a test message to first.lastname@mydomain.com
the aliases is recipient is not receiving my note ...

any suggestion

MasterC · 07-24-2003, 04:42 AM

Hi there!

Your question is a bit confusing, I'll try to reword it and see if it helps:
You have created a user. You want mail sent to another name to be recieved by this user. For example:
You have a user "carl". You want carl to recieve mail sent to your domain for 'webmaster'. To do this you will create an alias (how you create the alias is determined by your mail server (MTA) but I'll assume postfix since I love it

) so you will open up your /etc/aliases file and enter:
webmaster: carl
After you will need to run:
newaliases
And then reload postfix to make the change immediate:
postfix reload
You can also/instead run:
postalias
Which appears to be more "postfix oriented"? And from the look of the man page takes care of newaliases in the same keystroke and makes the changes happen more rapidly.

Cool

depaul · 07-24-2003, 07:59 AM

sorry lets be clearer,

I added some aliases in my aliases file ... here is my example ...

x.y: xy@hotmail.com
w.z: w

i done the newaliases command to update the aliases database.

w is a local user the aliases w.z@mydomain.com is working fine but x.y@mydomain.com is not relaying to xy@hotmail.com...
if i send direcly to xy@hotmail.com its working ...

so the aliases to another domain is not relaying but if i send direcly to another domain it's working.

note: i am using redhat 9.0, sendmail with smtp and pop3s... firewall set to high.

Thanks

depaul · 07-24-2003, 10:13 AM

update
i found out that all aliases are working except hotmail.com ... Mystery ...
any suggestions

depaul · 07-24-2003, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by depaul
update
i found out that all aliases are working except hotmail.com ... Mystery ...
any suggestions

stickman · 07-24-2003, 01:59 PM

Any error messages from log files?

depaul · 07-24-2003, 02:06 PM

i checked into maillog ... nothing

stickman · 07-24-2003, 04:50 PM

Email rarely disappears without leaving a clue. Have you tried telneting to port 25 and manually injecting an email to the address that gets rerouted to Hotmail?

depaul · 07-25-2003, 08:59 AM

yes ... port 25 is not available ... outside my domain

stickman · 07-25-2003, 10:34 AM

And what were the results when you tried to inject the email? What response did you get from sendmail? Please post the session.

Are you not accepting incoming mail from the Internet? I'm curious why port 25 is not available from outside your domain.

depaul · 07-25-2003, 01:41 PM

sorry i dont understand inject email ...
What do you mean by posting the session ?
maybe i did not enable internet acces to port 25 ... iptables or ... ???

stickman · 07-25-2003, 04:01 PM

Have you done anything similar to the following?

Code:

telnet your.mail.host 25
helo domain.com
mail from: me@domain.com
rcpt to: user@domain.com
data
Subject: test

test message!
.

This is a generic example. Substitute user and system names where appropriate.

Corin · 07-25-2003, 10:36 PM

How about doing something simpler first

> sendmail -v the_alias
this is the text of the test message
.

^ a period at beginning of the line followed only by <CarriageReturn>

depaul · 07-28-2003, 12:16 PM

hello ,
i tried telnet ip 25 ... no reply if i am not in my subnet ...
if i am in my subnet its working fine ...

stickman · 07-28-2003, 02:30 PM

Ok, so when you are on your subnet and you telnet to port 25 on the system, what happens what you attempt to send email to the user that get rerouted to Hotmail? When you say "working fine", does the email get to the Hotmail user when you send from inside your subnet?