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Christoph Höger choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Tue Oct 13 12:26:10 UTC 2009


Am Dienstag, den 13.10.2009, 00:27 -0700 schrieb Konstantin Svist:
> On 10/13/2009 12:08 AM, Christoph Höger wrote:
> > Nice to here this, but how do you sendmail to a real mta outside your
> > box then (aka: How does esmtp decide to route without aliases)?
> >
> 
> Well, in this case I don't really need to send mail directly from the box.
>  From what I understand, esmtp only uses procmail for local mail, so I 
> could set up a real SMTP server for esmtp to use, as well.
> 
> I think what esmtp does is check for the @ symbol. If found, it sends 
> mail through SMTP server. If not, it uses procmail. Not sure why aliases 
> need to be involved in this...

Well, if you handle it that way, you basically have one implicit
alias ;)
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