From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 5:23:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B55037B750 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 05:23:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA32129; Fri, 19 May 2000 08:24:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <3925321A.16F5B451@wmptl.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:22:50 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican Reply-To: webmaster@wmptl.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Vagner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail wierdness References: <200005190141.SAA17974@ns1.vagner.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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