RE: [Sheflug] SENDMAIL help :-(

[Richard Stevenson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, David Morris wrote:

> > > Is there a similar mechanism in sendmail though?
> > >
> > > Any advice gratefully received.
> > >
> > a text file called
> > .forward in home folder
>
> It works pretty much like qmail in that respect then. All I nee dto work out
> now is if I can abort further processing of the .forward file entries with a
> suitable return code from an executed program.

The behaviour is dependent on the "local delivery agent" - Sendmail
doesn't touch mailboxes, nor know anything about them.  To find out what
local mailer you're using:

grep ^Mlocal /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

I'm assuming you're using a recent Sendmail there.  There are a bunch of
different local delivery agents, all of which have different capabilities.
Whichever one's on your system ought to have documentation as well,
though.

Cheers

R


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