Where is root & postmaster & webmaster & www & cat email going?

        
         EMAIL ADDRESSES ON THE CAT SYSTEM.

         SYSADMIN:

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         root @ cat.org.au --> postmaster @ cat.org.au

         webmaster @ cat.org.au --> postmaster @ cat.org.au

         mailer-daemon @ cat.org.au --> postmaster @ cat.org.au

         postmaster @ cat.org.au  ---> mini list (multiple lines in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster ) to cat volunteers.

         COLLECTIVE:

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         www @ cat.org.au --> cat @ cat.org.au

         cat @ cat.org.au -->

         the user cat is now checked by somebody logging in a checking that mail on command line with pine or mutt or something.

         GEEK DETAILS ABOUT THE ABOVE CONFIGURATIONS:

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         SYSADMIN

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         the root user's email address is defined in by the /var/qmail/users/assign file
         to be controlled by the /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster file (a "dotfile")

         if you look in the above 'assign' file, you can see that it also defines
         anonymous@cat ,  hostmaster@cat, mailer-daemon@cat as being the controlled by postmaster.

         HINT: $ man dot-qfiles

         for instruction on the format of qmail dotfiles ie .qmail-username

         COLLECTIVE:

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         the 'www' alias is defined in old style (sendmail) /etc/aliases file

         remember : run newaliases if you modify /etc/aliases

         (man newaliases)

        andy (at) cat.org.au