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Re: mapping mail names to user/account names



On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 07:21:49PM +0200, Ferdinand Schinagl wrote:
> Hi dear mail wizards,
> 
> can sombody tell me how to do the following with my debian installation:
> For at least some maybe even all of the accounts on our server I'd like
> to have it receive emails addressed to it in a more formal naming
> convention. Means the "machine" should transport mail addressed to
> firstname_of_user_A.last_name_at_user_A@our.server.some.address though
> there is no account like firstname_of_user_A.last_name_at_user_A which
> doesn't even make sense to set up - too long a name and there are
> underscores (wouldn't be a problem really) and a dot inside the users
> name. In short, I'd like to do some user name mapping that's it. The
> mail should be received by an existing user of course.
> 
> Any ideas who to do this conveniently?
> 
> Thanks so far,
> 
> Ferd

Aliases? that seems the easiest to me (/etc/aliases, see doc on ur mta for exact
use).

-Lex

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