Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?

1999-10-15 Thread Herman Van Keer (softouch)
Fred Frigerio wrote: > Maybe it has to do with newer configuration avoiding your box being used > as a relay for spamming? That may be blocking anything that is not > internal to you machine? I have no idea - I use 8.8.7 (be it on RedHat 5.1)

RE: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?

1999-10-15 Thread Flood Randy Capt AFCA/GCF 256-1219
riday, October 15, 1999 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address? Ian Douglas wrote: > > That's what I thought the alias file is for: > > it redirects something@host to someoneelse@host. > > Not necessarily. > > I use it

RE: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?

1999-10-15 Thread Fred Frigerio
1999 1:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address? > > > Ian Douglas wrote: > > > > That's what I thought the alias file is for: > > > it redirects something@host to someoneelse@host. > > > >

Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?

1999-10-15 Thread Herman Van Keer (softouch)
Ian Douglas wrote: > > That's what I thought the alias file is for: > > it redirects something@host to someoneelse@host. > > Not necessarily. > > I use it to direct [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am very glad to see this confirmed. Only when I try it: it doesn't work. I have send

RE: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?

1999-10-14 Thread Ian Douglas
> That's what I thought the alias file is for: > it redirects something@host to someoneelse@host. Not necessarily. I use it to direct [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That way, people can send Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], sendmail at that domain sees the alias in place and redirects

Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?

1999-10-14 Thread Herman Van Keer (softouch)
Bug Hunter wrote: > We are using the sendmail aliases file to receive mail from the internet > for "fubar_and_associates@myhost" and sending it to "tom@myhost" That's what I thought the alias file is for: it redirects something@host to someoneelse@host. Indeed the same host and the 'to e-mail

Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?

1999-10-14 Thread Bug Hunter
We are using the sendmail aliases file to receive mail from the internet for "fubar_and_associates@myhost" and sending it to "tom@myhost" bug On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Herman Van Keer (softouch) wrote: > Bug Hunter wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Ian Douglas wrote: > > > > > Can anyone descri

Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?

1999-10-14 Thread Herman Van Keer (softouch)
Bug Hunter wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Ian Douglas wrote: > > > Can anyone describe for me how to create a catch-all Email address? ie: if > > someone sends mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the joe.smith account (or > > alias) does not exist, how would I catch that message and despoit it in > > a

Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?

1999-10-14 Thread Herman Van Keer (softouch)
Bug Hunter wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Ian Douglas wrote: > > > Can anyone describe for me how to create a catch-all Email address? ie: if > > someone sends mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the joe.smith account (or > > alias) does not exist, how would I catch that message and despoit it in > > an

Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?

1999-10-14 Thread Ian Douglas
> did you rerun the aliases command when you updated the aliases file? Yeah, of course. I've been using Linux for a few years now, I've just never faced having to create a catch-all address before. Any other help? -Ian

Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?

1999-10-14 Thread Bug Hunter
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Ian Douglas wrote: > Hey. Tried to send this message yesterday but haven't seen it come thorugh > yet. I apologize if both of these make it to the list. > > Can anyone describe for me how to create a catch-all Email address? ie: if > someone sends mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?

1999-10-14 Thread Ian Douglas
Hey. Tried to send this message yesterday but haven't seen it come thorugh yet. I apologize if both of these make it to the list. Can anyone describe for me how to create a catch-all Email address? ie: if someone sends mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the joe.smith account (or alias) does not exist,