[comp.mail.sendmail] Configure for Alias server

nfs1165@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( James L Strickland) (05/18/91)

 Is it possible to configure sendmail to send mail to another
 machine if there is no entry in the aliases* file or no aliases*
 file exists?

 I am thinking that a site with multiple UNIX machines where users
 want mailboxes might want to have a master aliases* file on one
 machine and have all mail routed there.  The sendmail on this
 aliases server would then send to the proper machine.

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eric@mammoth.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman) (05/21/91)

In article <3241@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil>, nfs1165@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( James L Strickland) writes:

|>  Is it possible to configure sendmail to send mail to another
|>  machine if there is no entry in the aliases* file or no aliases*
|>  file exists?

Yes -- change the definition of the "local" mailer to forward to the
master machine.  Names will resolve as local, get looked up in the
alias file (or .forward files), and then when processed will get
forwarded.

eric