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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: IDA question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.185455.27180@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <1993Jan11.172834.22663@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:54:55 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1993Jan11.172834.22663@news.tu-graz.ac.at> schinagl@fstgds06.tu-graz.ac.at (Hermann Schinagl) writes:
- >
- >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 ).
-
- >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 .....
-
- You need to put all of your clients in PSEUDONYMS, so that mail addressed
- to client machines is recognized as local, and delivered locally. Or
- use a MAILERTABLE entry for each client delivering such mail to the
- local mailer.
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