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From: rganesh@FSUCS.CS.FSU.EDU (Ganesh Rangarajan, csg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Sendmail
Message-ID: <8907232243.AA00447@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu>
Date: 23 Jul 89 22:43:41 GMT
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   I recently obtained a copy of sendmail for the Ultrix.  It consults the
name server fine. However, I encountered the following problem with the mailer
and I will be happy if someone can give me clues on this.

   If a local user sends mail to someone with a .forward file on the same 
machine, the message is forwarded to the host specified in the .forward.
However, if a user from another machine sends the same message, the .forward
is not consulted and the message is lost forever.  The mailq indicates the
message belonging to the MAILER-DEAMON instead of the original sender.
   For example:

   I have a .forward on fsucs : user@nu.cs.fsu.edu.
>From fsucs if I type:  mail user     then the mail reaches the user at nu.
However if a person on nu sends mail :   user@fsucs, theoretically the mail
should be forwarded to user@nu.cs.fsu.edu.  But the mail gets lost!!!

   Any comments will be appreciated.

--Ganesh
rganesh@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu
rganesh@nu.cs.fsu.edu
ganesh@fsu.bitnet