On Tuesday 03 December 2002 06:39 pm, someone claiming to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:25:28PM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: > > I have an incoming alias in sendmail so that mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > gets sent to my local username's mailbox (dad) using > > /etc/mail/genericstable. Unfortunately, it seems that mail sent locally > > doesn't follow the alias. If I my wife sends mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > it doesn't go. If she sends it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it goes. Why would > > this be and how do I fix it? I'm using sendmail that came with RH 8, > > 8.12.5, and kmail 1.4.3 (KDE 3.0.5). Is it as simple as setting up the > > alias in /etc/aliases? > > I think so. In fact, I think you can forego the genericstable altogether > and just use the alias file. Don't forget to run newaliases and to restart > Sendmail. >
Well, genericstable is for mapping outgoing usernames to the e-mail address so that mail that I send looks like its coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of dad (but I don't think that's working right). It's the virtusertable that maps e-mail names to user names. Regardless, editting /etc/aliases, running newaliases and restarting sendmail does the trick. Thanks, Tim -- RedHat Psyche 8.0, stock kernel, Gnome 2.x, Xfree86 4.2.0 9:00pm up 1 day, 20:50, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's what you learn AFTER you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
