Re: sendmail question

[Matthew Walker <mwalker@cstonesystems.com>]

how about setting up aliases on each machine and point the mail to  the 
right place.

  No alias means that the mail would be delivered locally (also, might 
want to use the foo@[207.206.xxx.xxx] format as to avoid mail handling 
with DNS)


On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, KoReE wrote:

> 
> Okay, I have a network consisting of a few machines.  I have users on all
> machines, but not every user necessarily has an account on all machines.
> Right now, when mail is sent to plain old "foo@ameth.org", user foo, if he
> has an account on the machine that is "ameth.org", it's dumped to his
> ameth.org machine.  If he only has an account on foo.ameth.org, then it is
> rejected, saying, "no such user".  What I want to do is set our mail
> handler to decide which machine is "default" for each user, as mail comes
> in for user@ameth.org.  Like, if my username is koree, and I should
> receive mail, by default, on inertia.ameth.org, and someone sends mail to
> simply koree@ameth.org, the mail handler (squishy.ameth.org - also the
> machine that the A record for ameth.org points to) will send the mail to
> koree@inertia.ameth.org.  If it's mailed specifically to
> koree@squishy.ameth.org, then I'll get it on squishy.ameth.org.  I hope
> I've explained this clearly enough.  I'll be reading the freaking manuals
> to figure this out, but any help is much appreciated :D
> 
> Koree
> 
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