sendmail -- local alias to a file trouble

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1 total messages Started by Ivo Welch Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:08

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Author: Ivo Welch
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:08

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I am having trouble with our sendmail. (All of it seems like witchcraft to
me.) How do I direct output to a file? I tried in sendmail/aliases

sysadmin: /Users/ivo/Mailboxes/sysadmin.mbox/mbox

loaded it (newaliases),  and   tried  mailing  to sysadmin.  This  worked fine
locally,      but  when  someone from  another    machine   tries  to mail  to
sysadmin@next.agsm.ucla.edu I get a file creation error:

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 /Users/ivo/Mailboxes/NeXT_Managers.mbox/mbox... 550 Can't create output

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <iwelch@AGSM.UCLA.EDU>
Received: from agsm.ucla.edu by next.agsm.ucla.edu (NX5.67c/NeXT-1.0(KJW-19Apr90))
	id AA01368; Fri, 13 Nov 92 11:05:47 -0800
Received: by agsm.ucla.edu
	(5.65a/IDA-1.2.8) id AA02042; Fri, 13 Nov 92 11:05:48 -0800


/ivo

PS: I would rather not install a  new system (like  IDA),  because I had tried
this once, which screwed up all mail-delivery completely, and because I didn't
know the internal mechanisms  of mail-delivery, then went  back spending a few
hours reinstating the old sendmail system. (It  was  *NOT*  plug-and-play, and
there was no easy uninstall.)

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