On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Aaron Johnson wrote: > > I am trying to clarify the Alias, Redirect and L-Redirect settings. Here > is how I think they work. > > Alias - This allows you create a pointer to a 'real' account and the > pointer is not a real account and it should not match a real account. > This is also only valid within the same domain as the user.
Yes. > Redirect - This allows you to send mail to an account outside of the > XMail server. Say you want all your mail to got to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > you would add a redirect to that address for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The messages are delivered via SMTP. > > L-Redirect - This is for redirecting locally between domains. If you > have domain1.com and domain2.com on the same XMail server you can > redirect by doing adding an L-Redirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] , this avoids an SMTP deliver. No. Both redirect and lredirect can route the message on both local and remote recipients. The difference is that "lredirect" impersonate the local user when sending the message. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
