Mail Problems

[Karl-Heinz Schulz]

Ciao Kris,

The /etc/network/interfaces looks like

<interfaces >
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 207.59.215.24    -> and I tried to enter the following
"207.59.215.23 207.59.215.24" 
        netmask 255.255.255.224
        network 207.59.215.0
        broadcast 207.59.215.31
        gateway 207.59.215.1
        # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if
installed
        dns-nameservers 66.255.85.8 66.255.85.9
</interfaces>


How would the /etc/aliases looks like if all mail to
"john.doe at WhatEverDomain.com" need to be rerouted to the user "JohnD"?

TIA

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[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Kristian Rink
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:13 AM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Mail Problems

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Am Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:56:03 -0400
schrieb "Karl-Heinz Schulz" <karlheinz at khschulz.com>:

> How can I bind more than one IP to a NIC - it added two in the 
> /etc/network/interfaces without success.

How does your /etc/network/interfaces look like, by now? Most likely you
want to use virtual interfaces for this, more or less this way:

ifconfig eth0:0 <ip> netmask <mask> up



> It seems that the mail is not forward to an user account - is this not 
> handled by procmail?


Tough question because there is a bunch of ways how to do this. Basic idea
is that mail is delivered locally to <user>@... in case <user> is, well,
some sort of locally known user account (be that one in /etc/passwd,
connected via LDAP / NIS / winbind / whatever, ...) and discarded otherwise.
In this setup, you make use of /etc/aliases to deliver mails to some user
depending on their recipient address. In this setup, you can make use of
procmail (as _user_) to process mail _before_ it hits your local mailbox but
_after_ the MTA has made a decision which user to deliver the mail to. 

If using fetchmail+procmail, i.e. on a dialup system, you can go for a setup
relying upon fetchmail to pull mail from some POP3 server and make it
directly deliver incoming mail to mail folders using procmail.
But I'm not sure whether this is a good idea or even what you want to do.


What exactly does your e-mail system setup look like, by now?

Cheers,
Kris








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