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    Default Force Default Mail Address for all accounts?

    Is there any way to mass change the "Default Mail Address" for all domains (existing accounts) in the server to use ":fail: No such person at this address" with "Discard with error to sender (at SMTP time)"?

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    Here's a sexy one-liner:

    Code:
    sed "s/^\*:.*/\*: :fail: No such person at this address/g" -i /etc/valiases/*
    Back up your valiases folder first.
    Last edited by vanessa; 06-16-2010 at 09:27 AM. Reason: typo

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    ^^ Thank you!

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