[comp.mail.sendmail] forwarding problem

fred@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Fred Whiteside) (12/22/89)

	I have the following problem:
	Players: user-with-forward@machine.with.forward
		 users-locale@off.site.machine
		 me@machine.with.forward
		 me@another.machine
	Facts:
		user-with-forward has a .forward file on 
		machine.with.forward that says 
		users-locale@off.site.machine
		(the forward is actually users-locale@[inter.net.add.ress])

	me@machine.with.forward sends mail to user-with-forward and it
	is forwarded to users-locale@off.site.machine who receives it
	correctly and with no difficulty.

	me@another.machine sends mail user@machine.with.forward
	and it fails. The manner in which it fails is that the message
	is apparently sent to @off.site.machine, but that machine
	sends it back to users-locale@another.machine who promptly fails it.
	What I can't understand is why off.site.machine thinks that it is
	seeing mail for users-locale@another.machine. I expect that the
	sendmail.cf on machine.with.forward is a little botched somehow, but
	i don't quite see where ... sendmail on machine.with.forward is the
	SunOS 4.0.3 release sendmail (version 4.0, i think they call it)

	Any thoughts?

	Thanks in advance

	Fred Whiteside - McMaster Postmaster
	McMaster University