lcz@dptudg.sat.datapoint.com (Lee Ziegenhals) (04/29/89)
I would like to set up my mail gateway to redistribute mail coming in for a mailing list to all of the local users. However, I do not want to use a simple alias for this, because I would like any redistribution errors to be returned to a local list manager and *not* to the originator of the mail. I have implemented this by using the following line in my aliases file: 'mailing-list: "| sendmail -f list-mgr user1 user2 ..."' which then recursively invokes sendmail to "remail" to the desired users. The "-f list-mgr" causes any distribution errors to be sent to "list-mgr" instead of the originator of the mail. I am a very new user to sendmail, so my question is basically whether this is a good way to do what I want to do. Can I get into any trouble by invoking sendmail from within the sendmail alias file? Is there a better way to do it? I am running sendmail 5.51 under BSD 4.3. Thanks!