Default root@domain address

[ATN Networks]

Hi All,

The SIDN (the .nl registry) and AFNIC (the .fr registry) technical notes are writing that we need to have a root@domain address for all domains. On this moment we got a lot of warnings cause DirectAdmin isn't do this by default.

Do somebody know how to figure that DirectAdmin made a root@domain address on all new and old accounts? It may be a forwarder to the username@domain address what DirectAdmin will make by Default.

Hope somebody know a good solution for this issue.

Regards!

 

[nobaloney]

You can certainly use the DNS templates to set up any address you want.

However, my default templates already set up [email protected] for every new domain. Note that in DNS the @ sign is replaced by a dot ".").

Don't forget that exim won't deliver email to root. Do you mean they're trying to deliver an email? If that's the case then you need to set up a forward so root goes somewhere else.

Jeff

 

[ATN Networks]

You can certainly use the DNS templates to set up any address you want.

However, my default templates already set up [email protected] for every new domain. Note that in DNS the @ sign is replaced by a dot ".").

Remember that exim won't deliver email to root. Do you mean they're trying to deliver an email? If that's the case then you need to set up a forward so root goes somewhere else.

Jeff

Dear Jeff,

I don't ask how I can add a root record to the DNS template... The most records allready got a root address.

SIDN and AFNIC test or mail to root@domain can be delivered. When the test failed (cause it can't deliver a message to root@domain) there will be warnings and the setup isn't matching the technical notes.

Cause we like to fix all of this warnings (in future this possible will be a hard error) we need to make a root@domain address for all accounts. We even want to setup DirectAdmin that it automatically create a root@domain address when we create a new account.

We try to figure out or DirectAdmin can create a forwarder (root@domain) to username@domain when it's creating a new account. An other option is that DirectAdmin no longer add a default box like username@domain, but root@domain by creating a new account.

Regards!

 

[scsi]

echo "email@address" > /root/.forward

 

[ATN Networks]

echo "email@address" > /root/.forward

Please read my question.

 

[nobaloney]

First you need to create a script which will ad a "root@" address in each domain's aliases file; they're located at /etc/virtual/example.com/aliases (for example).

Then read the file at /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/custom/README to learn how to add the line to new domains as they're created.

Jeff