NO NO NO.
You do not want to do this through sendmail's aliases file. You want to
create a .forward file in the users home directory.
Here are the problems with doing this in the alias file.
1.) You only want root editing that file and you don't want everyone that
is trying to forward their mail to a new address contacting the sys
admin (at least I do not want to be contacted by my users to do this for
them!!!!) The more self service oriented you make things the more they are
going to be used.
2.) Too many aliases listed in the file will cause problems
3.) Each time the alias file gets changed it will need to be rebuilt, the
more aliases you have the longer it takes. (We separate our aliases out
into several different files and then rebuilt the alias file nightly from
those files, keeps things a little more organized)
It is much easier to have users create .forward files in their home
directories. Do users have shell access to directory? We have created a
web form that allows users to authenticate and then create their forward
file. It will then send a test message. If they do not receive the test
message within 10 min then they need to retry setting up their forward or
calling our helpdesk for support.
At 12:08 PM 1/15/01 +0100, Jörg Bretschneider wrote:
>At 11:02 15.01.01 +0100, you wrote:
>>I want to have mail, that comes in to a user on my mailserver
>>to be automatically forwarded to another mailadress.
>>how do i do this?
>>i suspect that this is a sendmail matter, but im trying this
>>list first.
>>thanks
>>/PJ
>
>You're right, this is a sendmail thing. You should use the sendmail
>aliases file and define the local address of your user as an alias for his
>other address. The syntax is
> localusername : remoteaddress
>the file "aliases" usually resides in "/etc/mail". Don't forget to re-read
>the aliases file into the sendmail aliases database "aliases.db", usually
>done by giving
> $> newaliases
>an the prompt, which is an shell synonym for
> $> sendmail -bi
>Bye
>
>Joerg
>
> Joerg Bretschneider
> Mathematician
>
> HP-UX + SAMBA system administrator
> Technical University of Dresden, Civil Engineering
> Chair of Applied Informatics in CE
> mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
> Joerg Bretschneider
> Mathematician
>
> HP-UX + SAMBA system administrator
> Technical University of Dresden, Civil Engineering
> Chair of Applied Informatics in CE
> mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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