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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 08:22:50 -0400
From:      Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>
To:        George Vagner <vagner@ns1.vagner.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mail wierdness
Message-ID:  <3925321A.16F5B451@wmptl.com>
References:  <200005190141.SAA17974@ns1.vagner.com>

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George Vagner wrote:
> 
> I am hosting mail for another domain and a message sent to joe@hisdomain.com
> gets delivered to joe@mydomain.com mailbox I want to forward this to
> another adress say joey@somedomain.com by using a .forward file but
> the system wants to find joey@mydomain.com and deliver it there
> if there is a user joey on my system it gets delivered there instead of
> joey@somedomain.com
> 
> It is like it refuses to look at the domain in the .forward file
> and sends me a 550 user unknown.
> 
> I need some help on this.
> 
> George
> 
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Assuming your using sendmail, just edit /etc/aliases, to point local
user 'joey' to 'joey,joey@someotherdomain.com', then it will be
delivered both locally, and to the second recipient. You might want to
be a little more specific as to what MTA you're using when asking a
question like this next time though.


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Nathan Vidican
webmaster@wmptl.com
Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd.
http://www.wmptl.com/


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