Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD
On Fri 24 May 2024 at 13:08:56 (-0400), Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 06:40:09PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:45:56AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> >
> > > If I send an email directly to paulf@yosemite.mars.lan from buckaroo, it
> > > arrives. That means this config can do what it's designed to do, basically.
> > > However, mails to "root" on buckaroo don't get to yosemite. They should,
> > > because my /etc/aliases table looks like this:
> > >
> > > ---
> > > ...
> > > root paulf@yosemite.mars.lan
> > > ---
> >
> > Still out of my depth with OpenSMTPD, but... good ol' aliases,of sendmail
> > lore would have a colon after the "root" up there. The MTAs I know of
> > all have inherited that.
>
> There is a colon in my aliases file. I just omitted it in the email.
I don't know anything about opensmtpd, but use exim4 where, to send
emails to other hosts on the LAN, AIUI you either need a DNS server
that can resolve the LAN addresses or, instead, a hubbed hosts file.
Cheers,
David.
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