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DNS A record ALIASES, and ANAME record differences

We have a number of groups of servers on AWS that use trios of servers to serve out sites. Each server, or set of servers is within a different availability region, one of which is a redirection server while the other two are the primary servers…
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postfix: aliases will be ignored

I have a server which is configured as a postfix MTA and on which runs also a munin node. In /etc/aliases I have add: root: hostmaster@my.domain in the main.cf of postfix is configured: mydomain = my.domain myorigin = $mydomain alias_database =…
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/etc/aliases vs virtusertable

I have a mail server running Sendmail that hosts multiple mail domains. So for instance, emails addressed to @aaa.com and @bbb.com are both going to this same server. All this time I am using /etc/mail/virtusertable to manage the mappings of…
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Postfix REJECT (not BOUNCE) unknown virtual aliases

We run a small postfix (and dovecot) mail server for a number of hosted domains, using virtual alias maps and with spamassassin configured. Recently it's become apparent that we're generating some backscatter; spam emails are coming into…
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Sending email to a pair of users regardless of which one was addressed?

In the old sendmail I used to be able to backslash the usernames to prevent forwarding loops, however postfix 2 doesn't allow this syntax since complying with RFC822. Here is my example sendmail aliases file: fred: \fred, \jim jim: \fred,…
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Piping in postfix/aliases

Possible Duplicate: How to configure postfix to pipe all incoming email to a script? I'm having problems setting up simple piping for Redmine (or '|cat > /tmp/temp') /etc/postfix/virtual: support@myhost.com support /etc/postfix/aliases: support:…
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sendmail aliases - send to root plus external address?

There are plenty of examples of how to use aliases to send email to multiple addresses, but I'm interested in sending to an internal name and an external address. For example, this doesn't work, but the external address does get root messages: root:…
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Apache Local virtualhosts not working (502 error)

My local dev environment consists of a mac with OSX El Capitan 10.11.6. I have Apache 2.4.28 installed. Something seems to have gone wrong with my virtual host configuration as none of my local websites work when trying to access them using their…
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ssmtp root alias doesn't work

my ssmtp doesn't change "To" from 'root' to my email. In my ssmtp.conf I have: root=servers@latina.com In debug output I found only one difference between working and not working commands: working command: echo "body" | mail -s "test"…
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Postfix, hostname and /etc/aliases

After having dig for hours on SF/SO and googled a lot, I still can't figure out how /etc/aliases is used by postfix. I use an Amazon Linux EC2 server (kind of Centos6) My server hostname is set to srv.example.com I have setup postfix 2.6.6 with a…
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Configuring dynamic e-mail aliases such as "user+keyword"

My Ubuntu server is using Exim4/Courier for emails and I'd like to know if it's possible to create dynamic email aliases for receiving emails like…
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Sendmail alias for all mail users in the domain

Is there a way to make a global alias in Sendmail so it would send email to all users? I tried to create an alias and included the list of all my users, but when I try to process it by m4, I receive an error that the line is too long.
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How do I use "catchall" in my postfix alias?

I have this in my main.cnf: alias_maps= regexp:/etc/aliases Inside that file, I have: /^reply*$/: jjj Now, when I send it to reply-124233@mydomain.com, postfix bounces it because Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient…
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Exchange not preserving the "To:" field

I've got a hosted exchange solution through Apptix, which isn't the problem, I think, but it may be relevant. I have my main account, msimmons@mydomain.com, and to that, I have an alias, matt.simmons@mydomain.com. Whenever I send an email to…
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Firewall aliases mapped on DNS entries in pfsense

Is there a way, in PfSense, to add aliases to the firewall, based on hostnames registered in the DNS server? What I want to achieve is to setup a port forwarding rule, using pure NAT, to PC1.example.com, but PfSense says (same with only PC1 in the…
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