At 19:14 2000-09-22 -0400, Jesse Ferrell (CASI) wrote:
I set up my procmail to forward messages to my wife to her email account
with our ISP (but I wanted to give her a permanent email address using
my domain name). It has resulted in some atypical results.
You may be better off asking if the ISP will set up a virtusertable entry,
or an alias for her that directly forwards.
TO: xxxx(_at_)weatherwatchers(_dot_)org
TO: (or CC:) yyyy(_at_)weatherwatchers(_dot_)org
I have problems.
Yep. Known issue with virtual hosts. If the MTA knows both adressees are
in fact the SAME account, it only delivers ONE message (just as the sending
server delivered one message to your server, instead of two separate ones -
but it did that because it recognized the same server handles both of them).
If I send the above from yyyy(_at_)weatherwatchers(_dot_)org, the proc_log says:
>From whoever(_at_)wherever(_dot_)com Fri Sep 22 14:39:16 2000
Folder: /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi xxxx(_at_)home(_dot_)com
>From whoever(_at_)wherever(_dot_)com Fri Sep 22 14:39:16 2000
Folder: /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi xxxx(_at_)home(_dot_)com
but she does NOT get two copies, and I never see the message.
See if you can't check the system messages log - if sendmail is being
invoked twice, then there should be two outbound messages.
As for why your local account is getting two messages, it likely is an
issue with how the SMTP server handles final delivery versus source messages.
OR, if someone other than me sends the above, it just says:
>From whoever(_at_)wherever(_dot_)com Fri Sep 22 14:39:16 2000
Folder: /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi xxxx(_at_)home(_dot_)com
The second adressee (i.e. me) never gets the message.
Because one copy came into the system.
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Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list.
Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Post Box 2395 / San Rafael, CA 94912-2395
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