RE: Problem with mail

Hi again,

MTA stands for "Mail Transfer Agent" and some popular examples could be
Sendmail, Postfix, Qmail, Exim, etc. This link explains a lot of things you
should know about: http://www.sendmail.org/email-explained.html

I personally do prefer Postfix (after _a lot_ of years fighting against
sendmail ;-) ) but feel free to install & setup the one you like most.

Email aliases allow you, among other things, to redirect all the incoming
email for a certain user to another one.
For example: if you create an alias "netsaint: [email protected]",
whenever an email for the user netsaint is received, it will be
automatically sent to [email protected].
Aliases allow you to specify more than one recipient, so you could add an
entry like:

    netsaint: root, [email protected], [email protected]

Everytime you edit the email aliases file as root, usually /etc/aliases, you
must issue a 'newaliases' command (without the quotes) to rebuild the
aliases database.

HTH,

Martin

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Darrin Owen [mailto:[email protected]]
  Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:23 PM
  To: 'Martin Mielke (THALES)'; 'Darrin Owen'; 'Netsaint'
  Subject: RE: [netsaint] Problem with mail


  Sorry to act dumb, but I am very new to linux OS and Netsaint, it was
dropped in my lap to fix.



  What would a MTA be and where do I find it?



  Sincerely,



  Darrin Owen



  -----Original Message-----
  From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin
Mielke (THALES)
  Sent: Monday, 30 September 2002 18:34 PM
  To: Darrin Owen; 'Netsaint'
  Subject: RE: [netsaint] Problem with mail



  Hi Darrin,



  do you have an aliases for the netsaint user on your MTA??



  HTH,



  Martin

    -----Original Message-----
    From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Darrin Owen
    Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 4:44 AM
    To: 'Netsaint'
    Subject: [netsaint] Problem with mail

    Hi all,



    I can not seem to get mail going from netsaint, it shows up in the logs
but not in the mailboxes..





    Any Ideas?



    Darrin

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