Questions tagged [aliases]
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Unable to turn email forwarding off with /etc/aliases file
I was testing forwarding to an external account with this in /etc/aliases:
some_user: some_user,me@example.com
The email was going to the external address but not to the internal. So I removed the entry from /etc/aliases to try to get things back to…
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Nginx alias not working on https but working on http
I hope this is going to be a relatively simple one but I'm stumped and searching through potential solutions haven't helped.
I am looking to serve a static (ads.txt) file for my Ghost droplet on DigitalOcean. But there is a problem, as it doesn't…
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Postfix: processing incoming mail for virtual user
This discussion on Dovecot ML suggests to use for filtering mail for foo user foo: | /path/to/the/external/program in /etc/aliases. But aliases work only for local user. How to filter with script mail for virtual user (virtual_alias_maps)?
Do I have…
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Is it possible to use Gmail as a postfix relay with virtual domains?
As I'm getting more and more frustrated with attempting to use sendmail to send web app emails that won't be flagged as spam, I've turned my attention to using postfix instead. I've found this Linode guide describing how to use Gmail as a relay for…
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Forwarding emails to external domains - aliases vs mda sieve script?
There are 2 points in the flow of a incoming email where emails can be forwarded:
As soon as aliases are expanded (setting the target email as alias target)
As soon as mails are handed over to the mda (using the sieve redirect action)
Which method…
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Aliases in /etc/profile.d not present in bash
Aliases set in /etc/profile.d are present in a bash shell as expected when I log in to the server using ssh. When starting a new bash shell the aliases are not there. This is a major problem since logging in using NX to get a desktop, there is no…
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aliases not working when sending email using 'mail' and 'msmtp'
I have a Raspberry Pi and installed msmtp, msmtp-mta and mailutils. I send emails via Google SMTP and it works great for specific email addresses. If I try to send emails to "root" it works if I use msmtp (echo Test | msmtp -v root), but it does not…
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postfix not respecting aliases
I have a small server that is suposed configured to use my gmail account to send emails about the readings the borad takes I can send emails all right but I have noticed something strange - I specified in my /etc/aliases that all users should be…
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