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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Unknown user forwarding?
Message-ID: <1989Nov28.062023.19391@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 28 Nov 89 06:20:23 GMT
Reply-To: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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Here's an interesting problem:

We have a number of machines offsite that we talk to via uucp.  We can
send mail to the people on these machines by simply using login names
because they are all listed in our aliases file.

They, on the other hand, don't have our aliases file, so they must
be explicit when they send us mail.  They don't feel this is
acceptable.

The result is that we'll have to set up some system for sending out
new aliases files every day or so to keep these sites up to date,
and we'll have to change from the relatively simple

	user:	user@workstation

entries in our aliases file to using

	user:	user@workstation.smsc.sony.com

What would be great is if we could have sendmail on these machines
notice that the user being sent to is not a local user or local
alias and rewrite the address as "user@smsc.sony.com".

Does anyone know of a good way to do this with sendmail, or is my
best bet to put a wrapper around /bin/mail that would do this
for me?
-- 
David Elliott
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(408)944-4073
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