Jody Grafals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is there an easy way to have fetchmail  get mail from a remote server
> then have sendmail push it back out to another server? If I did not
> have to make an account for each address that would be ideal.

To have your mail automagically sent elsewhere, just create a
~/.forward file that contains only the email address that you want it
to go to followed by a newline.

> I have a local server setup and it thinks its email.foobar.com and its
> working great. I use fetchmail to get mail from the real server using
> the real server's IP address, and everyone in the office can see their
> mail and can send mail to each other.  The problem is that since the
> fake server thinks it's the real server, I can't deliver mail from the
> fake server to the real server. (Since the fake server thinks its
> foobar.com, anything @foobar.com stays on the local network.)  Since I
> have no control over the real server I would like to use a 3rd server
> (my debian server) to fetchmail (via a ssh tunnel) from the fake
> server and send it to the real foobar.com server. Kind of complicated
> but I think it would work well.

Why did you set it up so it thinks it's your mail server?  You need to
have your name to be a unique name or you will never be able to send
to that server.

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