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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.233.85.167!shore!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!enigma.staff.ichange.com!News From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: How to send a copy of incoming mail to another server? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:39:24 -0600 Organization: TundraWare Lines: 43 Message-ID: <330889BC.41C67EA6@tundraware.com> References: <33088329.7909636@news.cois.on.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: eskimo.industry.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6039 Shane Bywater wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm wondering what the easiest way to send a copy of selected > user's email on one server to another server on the local network. I > need a way to copy and not just redirect it. This copied email is > then sent by this second server to the customer's pager or fax > machine. Do I have to modify sendmail or can I add something to the > forward file of those selected users? > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Shane This is quite straightforward. You need to setup an alias on the machine receiving the mail so that sendmail knows to send it two places. Suppose the user's name is 'buffy'. In the /etc/aliases file create and entry like this: buffy: buffy@machine1.com, buffy@machine2.com Notice that the recipients don't even have to be on the same machine that actually receives the mail. Then run the 'newaliases' command and it's done... This is how you can advertise a canonical email address to the outside world without actually specifying where the mail is being delivered. For instance: buffy@myco.com can be aliased to any internal machine at myco.com without the rest of the world being the wiser. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Tundra" Tim Daneliuk System Architect, Nets Inc. email: tundra@netsinc.com Voice/FAX: 847.827.1706 Pager: 630.223.0266 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------