How to create and activate new sponsored "@cs.uwaterloo.ca" mail aliases

For aliases easily attributable to an existing sponsor, such as a faculty member or research group, it is best to work within the sponsors data system. We will assume all these aliases will be handled by the "@cs.uwaterloo.ca" mail servers.

But you can specify "Host: cs-teaching.cs.private" to make aliases appear in the deprecated "@student.cs.uwaterloo.ca" mail servers. Conceivably, aliases could be created for other regions, too.

1. Use RCS revision control to update the appropriate file under

   cs-xh-admin:/software/accounts-master/data/sponsors

   likely in fact under

   cs-xh-admin:/software/accounts-master/data/sponsors/Research

          ====
          # 2014-01-24 (lfolland) ST#32123 - create cola-notify
          MailAlias: cola-notify[]
          Host: cs-general.cs.private
          AssignTo: :include:/u/www-cola/mailaliases/cola-notify
   

2. Use "accounts-client cs-general.cs.private" to which will update /software/accounts_client/export/aliases on "cs-general.cs.private.uwaterloo.ca", and on the CSCF mail server "mx-104".
   
3. You must manually run "xh-mail-aliases" on mx-104:

    
        root@mx-104:~#
        root@mx-104:~#  /software/xhier/maintenance/xh-mail-aliases
        root@mx-104:~#
   

   That will place the new aliases into /etc/aliases.
   
4. Restart the Sendmail daemon on mx-104 to pick up the changes:

        root@mx-104:~#
        root@mx-104:~#  service sendmail restart
        * Restarting Mail Transport Agent (MTA) sendmail
          ...done.
   
        root@mx-104:~#