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forwarding problem

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From: Fred Whiteside
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 20:58
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	I have the following problem:
	Players: user-with-forward@machine.with.forward
		 users-locale@off.site.machine
		 me@machine.with.forward
		 me@another.machine
	Facts:
		user-with-forward has a .forward file on 
		machine.with.forward that says 
		users-locale@off.site.machine
		(the forward is actually users-locale@[inter.net.add.ress])

	me@machine.with.forward sends mail to user-with-forward and it
	is forwarded to users-locale@off.site.machine who receives it
	correctly and with no difficulty.

	me@another.machine sends mail user@machine.with.forward
	and it fails. The manner in which it fails is that the message
	is apparently sent to @off.site.machine, but that machine
	sends it back to users-locale@another.machine who promptly fails it.
	What I can't understand is why off.site.machine thinks that it is
	seeing mail for users-locale@another.machine. I expect that the
	sendmail.cf on machine.with.forward is a little botched somehow, but
	i don't quite see where ... sendmail on machine.with.forward is the
	SunOS 4.0.3 release sendmail (version 4.0, i think they call it)

	Any thoughts?

	Thanks in advance

	Fred Whiteside - McMaster Postmaster
	McMaster University
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From: fred@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Fred Whiteside)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: forwarding problem
Keywords: forwarding botched
Message-ID: <259143EE.11535@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 21 Dec 89 20:58:21 GMT
Reply-To: fred@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Fred Whiteside)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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