[731] in RedHat Linux List
Local (as apposed to internet) MTA woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Powell)
Thu Oct 24 11:59:20 1996
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:56:02 -0400
From: Chris Powell <helios@brickandivy.com>
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Well, I solved the "mail looping" problem and can now send mail from user to
user across the LAN. (whew)
I now have run into another wall: I cannot send mail to an _alias_ on
another machine. I thought the problem lay with "mail," because its manpage
says:
System wide aliases are not expanded when the mail is sent, but any
reply
returned to the machine will have the system wide alias expanded as all
mail goes through sendmail.
But it seems that the de facto local MTA is procmail on Red Hat machines.
(Maybe procmail uses "mail?" Regardless of the reason, aliases aren't
expanded on local mail, only on net-based mail.)
The whole reason I'm messing with this is that I've set up a majordomo
mailing list on my gateway machine, and I'd like to be able to send messages
to my own mailing list without having to rlogin to that box. Does anyone
have any solution to this annoying little glitch? I'd sure appreciate the
assistance.
Regards,
Chris Powell
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