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Article #34Re: Forwarding messages through sendmail
From: Neil Rickert
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 01:46
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 01:46
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In article <2af52a24.122c@grace.cri.nz> srghcxp@grace.cri.nz writes: >How do you tell sendmail to act as a router, accepting messages >for machine 'x' and sending them to whomever they are addressed to. You just forward it to that machine. In a typical 'sendmail.cf' you would use something similar to: R$*<@$+>$* $#tcp $@relay.host $: $1<@$2>$3 > I have a machine which doesn't have a namserver and can't > therefor send messages via SMTP directly. So I want it to > always send to my 'routing' machine, which will then send > it on. But at the moment it refuses the message with > something like. > > "No such user" This suggests that you did not include the hostname in the operand following the $: operator of the mailer selection rule.
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Subject: Re: Forwarding messages through sendmail Message-ID: <1992Nov2.014611.19339@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University References: <2af52a24.122c@grace.cri.nz> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 01:46:11 GMT Lines: 20