[Rickster]

It would appear that OS X Server 10.x provides no facility for creating mail aliases -- that is, names which are valid email accounts, but don't necessarily correspond to a user account. Such as a webmaster address that can go to whichever user is in charge of the web site, or setting it so I get mail addressed to rroe, rick, rdroe, rickster, or rdr, for example. It appears the only way to do this is to create actual user accounts and set a forwarding address for each. It seems rather wasteful to pollute NetInfo et al with full user entries just for this purpose, and it's unclear whether you can have multi-recipient aliases using this method.

Anybody found a good way to get 10.x's mail server to do this kind of stuff?

[Mactoid]

The /aliases directory in NetInfo works for me (fyi i'm using 10.1, not server, but it should be the same).

e.g. I have a directory in there with the property "name" = "webmaster" and the property "members = "pete" (my regular user name), and so all the mail to webmaster@localhost goes to pete@localhost

[senfking]

I solved it by changing sendmail.cf.

I don't remember the exact syntax, but searching for 'alias' and uncommenting two lines did the trick.

[Rainy Day]

Wouldn't it be possible to use a .procmail recipe on the catch all account? I assume there is a catch all account... i've not actually installed OSXS yet, so i'm just going on what i've done previously on a virtual host on my IHP. If there is, .procmail can definitely handle the task.

[pizzasub]

Originally posted by Rainy Day:
<STRONG>Wouldn't it be possible to use a .procmail recipe on the catch all account? I assume there is a catch all account... i've not actually installed OSXS yet, so i'm just going on what i've done previously on a virtual host on my IHP. If there is, .procmail can definitely handle the task.</STRONG>

It's not necessary to go to those lengths, though. In your sendmail.cf file, there's a (commented out) line that shows the location of the aliases database; you can change the contents of this file like so (as root):

webmaster: dave
all: dave
fred

and then run sudo newaliases, and you'll be set to go.

If you'd like to verify that an alias will work:

sendmail -bv &lt;alias&gt;

and if it says it's deliverable, you're set

[Rainy Day]

Originally posted by pizzasub:
<STRONG>
It's not necessary to go to those lengths, though. In your sendmail.cf file, there's a (commented out) line that shows the location of the aliases database; you can change the contents of this file...</STRONG>

Thanks!

[pizzasub]

Originally posted by Rainy Day:
<STRONG>

Thanks!</STRONG>

Sure. Hope it helped.