Re: [courier-users] Problems with aliases

[Jean-Christophe B. <co...@th...>]

Thanks for you answer Sam,

Sam Varshavchik wrote :
> Correct. Virtual domain aliases are processed first.

Would be good to have this info in
http://www.courier-mta.org/makealiases.html

>> - why don't the "@domain.com: user" aliases work as I expect ?
> You probably have a .courier-default file in ~user.

Correct. Does this affect what users courier sees ? IOW, in which
cases does courier answer "User xxx unknown" (regarding the presence of
the .courier-default file) ? Is this documented somewhere ?

> If you want a virtual domain redirected to an account, and you want to
> select which addresses are valid, remove the .courier-default file, and
> install .courier-<username> file, for each valid mailbox in the domain.

I don't get it, I have :

$ cat /etc/courier/aliases/thefreecat
john: thefreecat
@thefreecat.org: thefreecat

$ cat /home/vmail/thefreecat/.courier
ac...@ot...

$ cat /home/vmail/thefreecat/.courier-default
ac...@ot...

But only john will have his mail delivered (to thefreecat and thus to ac...@ho...)
For all other accounts, I get "User xxx unknown".

john and jim have an account on the server.
- I want jo...@th... to get his mail routed to ac...@ot...
- I want ji...@th... to get his mail delivered locally
- I want all other emails to @thefreecat.org delivered to some alias.

If I understand correctly, I should have
- ~thefreecat/.courier-john containing "ac...@ot..."
- ~thefreecat/.courier-jim containing "jim"
- ~thefreecat/.courier-??? for the "wildcard" containing "alias" ?

Thanks for your help,

JC