home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Path: sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!news.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds06.tu-graz.ac.at!schinagl
- From: schinagl@fstgds06.tu-graz.ac.at (Hermann Schinagl)
- Subject: IDA question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.172834.22663@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
- Sender: news@news.tu-graz.ac.at (USENET News System)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: fstgds06.tu-graz.ac.at
- Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:28:34 GMT
- Lines: 36
-
- Hi
-
- I would like to set up a 'mailcluster' under IDA sendmail, so that
- outbound mail has a unique mailname ( works fine when using MAILNAME ),
- and having a mailserver, which delivers local mail. ( works fine with
- MAILSERVER ).
-
- My problem is a follows:
-
- User 'aaa@fstgsg01.tu-graz.ac.at' mails to
- 'bbb@fm11hp01.tu-graz.ac.at'. His From header would look like
- this 'aaa@oanstu-graz.ac.at', because MAILNAME has rewritten it.
- 'bbb@fm11hp01.tu-graz.ac.at' replies to 'aaa@oans.tu-graz.ac.at' and
- mail from 'bbb' ist sent to 'aaa@oans'. 'oans' is only a MX record,
- which points to the mailserver. The mailserver holds an alias file,
- which delivers incomming mail. This already works.
-
- But I must have an alias entry for any user at any client, so that
- incomming mail from the mailserver is delivered locally, otherwise there
- would be an infinite loop. mailserver delivers to client, client looks
- up the alias file, finds no entry, sends mail to mailserver, cause he
- believes of local delivery, mailsver sends to client .....
-
-
- Question: Is there an easier way, than to have a alias file on any
- machine with alias entry for any user.
-
- I would like to have one alias file on the server, and none or small on
- all clients.
-
-
- Thanks in advance
-
- Hermann
-
-
-