On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 09:03:42AM -0700, David Stern wrote: > $ man aliases > > [..] > Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person > more than once. > [..] > > "Loops cannot occur, ..". So, if I make an alias for tsawyer to hfinn, > and an alias for hfinn to dstern, and I send a mail to tsawyer, then > who should get it? > > First I thought that meant hfinn should get it, but that clearly does > not occur. When I read "loops cannot occur", I get a sense of > absolute, iow if I make an alias from tsawyer to hfinn, then mail sent > to tsawyer goes to hfinn, no matter what alias I make for hfinn. > Otherwise, a loop would occur if I were to alias dstern back to the > tsawyer. > > If this isn't a bug, then the man page is either erroneous, or appeals > to a form of logic that I don't understand. > > All I really want is to mail for root to go to dstern, and for mail to > real-root to go to root, not get looped back to dstern. How can I do > this?
Well...what MTA you use? what MDA? I remember exim has this config already (for real-) what you can do is get rid of the alias for root and do this: use exim as the mailer and procmail as the MDA (yes yes I know exim has its own filte rbut I don't know how to use it) then use a procmail recipe to deliver all mail to the proper user. any mail to real-root will bypass procmail entirely exim is a really easy to configure MTA try it out :) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
