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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message 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. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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