Help!

Hi group. I have Dedicated Matrix Server with Fasthosts.

I am trying to work out if I can do catch-all.

One set of support says yes, the other says no.

I can't find any answers in the Knowledgebase for either yes or no.

Can anybody please advise if this is possible or how I can sort this through telnet?

I've tried a nobody alias for a domain, but get told that a nobody user exists.

However, I can't get into, see and support can't give me the password for the nobody alias.

Regards and thanks
Dave

Hi

I have just looked at the link to the Matrix Catch-All search on this problem and read Sendmail.

Unless I'm mistaken, Fasthosts appear to be either not using Sendmail correctly or appear to have made a slight mess of things.

The sendmail.cf file is catch-all where

@domain.com user

This means that anything@domain.com that doesn't have an alias goes to user name.

However, after doing everything by the book, I still get problems with catch-all.

Trying * or @domain.com in the aliases fields on the Matrix 5555 Control Panel throws up "don't use special characters".

Anybody?

Ta

Hi,
Just browsing and can offer some very late help on this:

To forward all mails to another address:
Log in via telnet
1. Edit /etc/mail/virtuserable (not virtusertable.db)

2. Find the two lines which say @yourdomain.com and @www.yourdomain.com

3. If those lines have nothing after them, then at the end of each line, insert your user name

4. If you cannot find those lines, then two new ones to the bottom of the file as follows:
@www.yourdomain.com yourusername
@yourdomain.com yourusername
(This address cannot be on the same domain).

5. Then via telnet run:
makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable.db < /etc/mail/virtusertable

NB: When I have put yourusername, this is NOT your email address.

Alternatively, drop me a line at andrew_p394@hotmail.com and I'll give you a hand.

Regards,
Andy