facca@PRANDTL.NAS.NASA.GOV ("Tony A. Facca") (04/20/89)
Hello, Q. Can anyone help me setup a distribution list using Mail?? I am trying to setup a local "info-iris" for the people using Iris's here at NASA LeRC. What I have in mind is this: users mail information, querries, etc, to a local machine which will serve as the distribution point. From this machine (which I happen to be root on), I want to be able to maintain a list of all the user's who will receive the mail. I then want the mailer to be able to forward this mail to each person on the distribution list. Now, in the /usr/lib/Mail.rc file I can setup the list of aliases for the distribution list, and if I send mail to this alias it get distributed correctly. The problem I can't understand is, how do I make the mailer realize the INCOMING mail for this alias should also be distribute?? What happens now is the mail get bounced back with an "user unknown" message. I can alias the incoming message is /usr/lib/aliases to some userid (mine?) but then I would have to join a user which seems pointless. I don't know if there is a way to use my userid as a forwarding mechanism for only a specific alias, and not forward all the other mail I get. What do I need to do?? Please use file names and be explicit -- I have been sifting through mail man pages for a couple days now. I believe it must be some combination of /usr/lib/Mail.rc, /usr/lib/aliases and something else. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Environment: 4D/70G OS: 3.1 e-mail: facca@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov