On Friday 26 July 2002 10:25, Trevor Fraser wrote: > > I have a fairly good understanding of the basic amanda proceedure. > I understand that who ever is written in the mailto line in the > conf file will get mail, but now lets say I want this mail to go > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , do I just write the full address > here. Another reply said to write this address in the aliases > file, this isn't working, please advise. Do I need to point the > Linux mail service to the mail server? How?
Yes, you normally write the full address. You may also add an entry to the alias file. Both should work, if you mail system is set up correctly. For example, make sure that you have reply-able addresses. Otherwise, many mailservers refuse to accept your mail (thank the spammers for making things more difficult in life.) I had the same problem, also with a host in South Africa, where my mail just vanished into a big black hole. Our network is behind a firewall, and I sent my mail with sender "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" bypassing our normal mailserver that normalises all addresses, but there was no MX record for "hostname.my.domain", only one for "my.domain". Instead of bouncing with an error like "Access denied, no MX record found for hostname.my.domain", I could watch my mail getting out through our firewall, but it never got delivered, nor did it bounce.
