[nylug-talk] problem with mail alias

[luke@chipcity.com.au]

Hi.

Thanks for your reply.

12May2006 @ 23:26 Henning Follmann thusly spake
> 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.
> 

Yes. I did that.
Thanks to yours and help from others I have solved this prob.
As you indicated the to headers don't change, so I added a new recipe to the
.procmailrc for 'jobs at foo'. 

> 
> 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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