SCG Mail aliases

• Mail sent to any of the mail aliases for SCG are handled by the CS core mail server. To determine who is in any of the aliases, follow the steps below.
  • Make sure you log into linux.cs then become www-scg first - documented in first step below

Who can become user "www-scg"

• access to this user is controlled by an .rhosts file. Faculty members in the group have access from any host in the CS core environment:

Determine which server handles mail for scg

• from any server in CS, run:
  • host -t MX  scg.cs.uwaterloo.ca

   scg.cs.uwaterloo.ca mail is handled by 10 mx.cs.uwaterloo.ca.

Get the list of aliases

• This requires privileged access, however the list of aliases does not change often
• On the mail host mx.cs CSCF research support staff can do the following
• grep -i scg  /etc/aliases

cs-rsg-scg: magore, lfolland
issac2013pc::include:/u/www-scg/mailaliases/issac2013pc
mapledev-archive:/u/www-scg/archive/mbox.mapledev
owner-issac2013pc::include:/u/www-scg/mailaliases/owner-issac2013pc
scg::include:/u/www-scg/mailaliases/scg
scgadmin::include:/u/www-scg/mailaliases/scgadmin
scgmaple::include:/u/www-scg/mailaliases/scgmaple

Look at the list of users for a given alias

• on any host in the CS core environment, do the following:
• ls -l /u/www-scg/mailaliases

-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-scg www-scg 846 Oct 16  2012 issac2013pc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-scg www-scg  17 Oct 18  2012 owner-issac2013pc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-scg www-scg  23 Feb 11  2017 scg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-scg www-scg  37 May 17  2016 scgadmin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-scg www-scg 125 Nov 29  2006 scgmaple
-rw-r----- 1 www-scg www-scg 744 Feb 11  2017 scg-old

• cat /u/www-scg/mailaliases/scg

scg@lists.uwaterloo.ca

• cat /u/www-scg/mailaliases/scgmaple

kogeddes
glabahn
mwg
ezima
rfburger
cheng@cs.uleth.ca
astorjoh
ikotsire@wlu.ca
dwharder@uwaterloo.ca
luc.b.rebillard@free.fr

Getting the list updated

• on any host in the CS core environment, users in the www-scg rhosts file can do the following
  • rlogin localhost -l www-scg
  • then, vi mailaliases/scg

• Send email to accounts@cs and request any additions or deletions