[nylug-talk] problem with mail alias

[Henning Follmann]

luke at chipcity.com.au wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> 12May2006 @ 07:21 Peter C. Norton thusly spake
>> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 06:59:18AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote:
>>> luke at chipcity.com.au wrote:
>>>> Hi.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe a little off topic but forgive me:
>>>>
>>>> I need some help with an alias in relation to 2 mailservers.
>>>>
>>> What MTA?
>> To the original poster:
>>
>> MTA means Mail Transport Agent. This refers to what is probably one of
>> the following mail daemons/suites:
>>
>> sendmail
>> postfix
>> qmail
>> courier
>> exim
>>
>> But there are a couple of others, too.
>>
>> Which one are you using?
> 
> sendmail
> 


So did you build your alias db after making the change to 
/etc/mail/aliases ?

man newaliases
For more information.


And then as I said before:
aliases do _not_ change the To: field in the header. It will be still 
the original To address. The alias just builds a new envelope.


Henning



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