Re: sendmail bug?

["Stephen J. Carpenter" <sjc@delphi.com>]

On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 09:03:42AM -0700, David Stern wrote:
> $ man aliases
> 
>   [..]
>   Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person
>   more than once.
>   [..]
> 
> "Loops cannot occur, ..".  So, if I make an alias for tsawyer to hfinn, 
> and an alias for hfinn to dstern, and I send a mail to tsawyer, then 
> who should get it?
> 
> First I thought that meant hfinn should get it, but that clearly does 
> not occur.  When I read "loops cannot occur", I get a sense of 
> absolute, iow if I make an alias from tsawyer to hfinn, then mail sent 
> to tsawyer goes to hfinn, no matter what alias I make for hfinn.  
> Otherwise, a loop would occur if I were to alias dstern back to the 
> tsawyer.
> 
> If this isn't a bug, then the man page is either erroneous, or appeals 
> to a form of logic that I don't understand.
> 
> All I really want is to mail for root to go to dstern, and for mail to 
> real-root to go to root, not get looped back to dstern.  How can I do 
> this?

Well...what MTA you use?
what MDA?

I remember exim has this config already (for real-)
what you can do is get rid of the alias for root and do this:

use exim as the mailer and procmail as the MDA (yes yes I know 
exim has its own filte rbut I don't know how to use it)

then use a procmail recipe to deliver all mail to the proper user.

any mail to real-root will bypass procmail entirely

exim is a really easy to configure MTA try it out :)

-Steve
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