Plesk Creates root@domain.com Coming from Ensim 4.x

[KrazyBob]

When using the Plesk Migratiion Manager on Virtuozzo 3 Plesk is migrating in all email addresses correctly *except* that Plesk creates root@domain.com as an alias for what was the default Ensim user address (like site-admin@domain.com)

root@ is getting spammed to death on several servers.

Where is this root@ *alias* written to? It is not in the standard alias file.

I don't write BASH, so let me ask about a script that could travel to each domain, look for the root@ alias, delete it, and save the file back.

Thanks in advance.

 

[OZyryanov]

Hello!

Really, Ensim creates defautl aliases

MAILER-DAEMON ---> postmaster
postmaster ---> root
site_blackhole ---> /dev/null
root ---> default-address
catch-all ---> default-address

Youd could use

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail --update site-admin@domain.com -aliases del:root

to remove this alias by command line.

Thanks.

 

[KrazyBob]

Thank you for the reply.

Your answer is great but assumes that the email address is site-admin@domain.com. I still need to figure out which of many email addresses per domain contains the alias.

 

[OZyryanov]

The easiest way is to analyze dump you made from ensim. There aliases stored as

<alias>ALIAS_NAME</alias>.

Thanks.

 

[KrazyBob]

Thanks again, but we have long since deleted the migration files. I was hoping for an automatced soltion as opposed to a manual process of thousands of domains.

 

[OZyryanov]

You could use Plesk API.

You could analyze results from script like this (for example)

awk -F: '{print $1, ":", $5; }' /var/qmail/users/assign | grep '\-<ALIAS>\ :'

where <ALIAS> - alias you found.