Paul, After analyzing the tables, I went ahead and added [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an alias to the 2 mailboxes I wanted delivery to and that worked perfectly. Your help is appreciated!
Jamie On 9/5/05, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jamie, > > Forget about dbmail-users. Look at the tables directly. dbmail-users > won't show *everything*. In fact it doesn't show forwards at all (in 2.0). > > > if you want to have multiple users receive the same address: > > 1) two local dbmail users receive [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > dbmail_users: > > userid | user_idnr > -----------------------+------------------------- > john | 3 > barbara | 4 > > dbmail_aliases: > > alias | deliver_to > -----------------------+------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 3 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 4 > > > equivalent but convoluted: > > alias | deliver_to > -----------------------+------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 3 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 4 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded to two external addresses > > alias | deliver_to > -----------------------+------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Lookups are fully recursive, so anything in the deliver_to field is > looked up in dbmail_users.user_idnr, and if that doesn't yield a valid > result, it is matched against dbmail_aliases.alias. If that matches the > whole cycle is restarted with the result. > > And this goes on and on, until either a user_idnr is found (local > delivery), or a address is found which doesn't belong to a local user > (external forward), or until the maximum recursion level is reached (error). > > capice? > > Now what is *your* setup? I'm guessing you're confused because you're > using addresses as userids. (which makes sense, in a way...). > > And pulleez, be done with the at dot com trip'n. Some clarity will help; > 'someuser at blah dot com' is *not* a valid userid -- > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' *is*. Feel free to anonymize, but leave the syntax > intact. > > > Jamie Doherty wrote: > > What should dbmail-users -l xxxx at xxxxx dot comm be displaying if I > > correctly setup mail forwarding using the -t switch? > > > > Jamie > > > > On 8/25/05, Jamie Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I have pasted the session: > >> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dbmail-users -c xxxxx at xxxxx -t yyyyy at yyyyy > >>Opening connection to database... > >>Opening connection to authentication... > >>Ok. Connected > >>Performing changes for user [xxxxx at xxxxx]... > >>Done > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dbmail-users -l xxxxx at xxxxx > >>Opening connection to database... > >>Opening connection to authentication... > >>Ok. Connected > >>Info for user [xxxxx at xxxxx] > >>User ID : 11 > >>Username : xxxxx at xxxxx > >>Client ID : 0 > >>Max. mailboxsize: 0.00 MB > >>Quotum used : 0.06 MB (inf%) > >> > >>Aliases: > >> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# > >> > >>Everything looks just as if the user was just created. What shoud it > >>be displaying? > >> > >>Jamie > >> > >>On 8/25/05, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>If you're trying to add a forward for 'user at domain dot com' what does > >>>the output of dbmail-users -l 'user at domain dot com' have to say? > >>> > >>>Jamie Doherty wrote: > >>> > >>>>I am trying to forward emails to multiple mailboxes using the command: > >>>> > >>>>dbmail-users -c user at domain dot com -t 2nd at domain dot com. > >>>> > >>>>Nothing is happening, I don't see any new entries in the alias table > >>>>and emails are being delivered. I am running dbmail 2.0.4 and using > >>>>qmail to deliver to dbmail (is that my problem?) > >>>> > >>>>Jamie > >>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>Dbmail mailing list > >>>>Dbmail@dbmail.org > >>>>https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > >>>> > >>> > >>>-- > >>> ________________________________________________________________ > >>> Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl > >>> NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 > >>> The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>Dbmail mailing list > >>>Dbmail@dbmail.org > >>>https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > >>> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Dbmail mailing list > > Dbmail@dbmail.org > > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > > > > -- > ________________________________________________________________ > Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl > NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 > The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl >
