I've recently gone from having my own machine on the 'net to having a
"multidrop" mailbox and am having some difficulty with my mail.
Consequently I'm reading my sendmail and fetchmail documents more
closely than I have for quite some time.
I think that the description of "smtpaddress' lacks clarity (written by
a techie who understands what's meant); if I have it right then this
syntax is clearer and more obvious:
user summer pass pigsmayfly is summer(_at_)mail * here
Ideally, extend it to user
summer pass pigsmayfly is summer(_at_)mail *others here
where "mail" and "others" are resolvable host names.
At present I have the problem that mail addressed to
summer(_at_)ami(_dot_)com(_dot_)au
and to summer(_at_)mail(_dot_)ami(_dot_)com(_dot_)au gets into my mailbox at
ami.com.au; when
it gets here my sendmail then sends it back out UNLESS I have it
mentioned in /etc/mail/local-host-names in which case I can't send mail
to my IAP.
It's true that I've not yet tried "smtpaddress" - my internet went down
before I decided to try it.
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Cheers
John Summerfield
Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/
Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my
disposition.