Sendmail (probly FAQish)

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 03 December 2002 06:39 pm, someone claiming to be 
kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:25:28PM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > I have an incoming alias in sendmail so that mail to tim at thewunders.org
> > gets sent to my local username's mailbox (dad) using
> > /etc/mail/genericstable. Unfortunately, it seems that mail sent locally
> > doesn't follow the alias. If I my wife sends mail to tim at thewunders.org,
> > it doesn't go. If she sends it to dad at thewunders.org, it goes. Why would
> > this be and how do I fix it? I'm using sendmail that came with RH 8,
> > 8.12.5, and kmail 1.4.3 (KDE 3.0.5). Is it as simple as setting up the
> > alias in /etc/aliases?
>
> I think so. In fact, I think you can forego the genericstable altogether
> and just use the alias file. Don't forget to run newaliases and to restart
> Sendmail.
>

Well, genericstable is for mapping outgoing usernames to the e-mail address so 
that mail that I send looks like its coming from tim at thewudners.org instead 
of dad (but I don't think that's working right).  It's the virtusertable that 
maps e-mail names to user names.

Regardless, editting /etc/aliases, running newaliases and restarting sendmail 
does the trick.

Thanks, 
Tim

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