Chris,
I tried the aliases approach, but didn't get any output from mail on my router
for two months, Then one day, about 200 messages came spooling out. Now I get
messages whenever.
/etc/mail/aliases
root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I do receive emails from the machine, but they are not being delivered properly.
Here is what I get when I receive one:
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
From: "Mail Delivery Subsystem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, February 11, 2008 11:31 am
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message contents:
The original message was received at Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:30:45 -0500 (EST)
from localhost.cosmoweb.net [127.0.0.1]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(reason: 553 5.1.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain of sender address
[EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist)
(expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to earth.cosmoweb.net.:
>>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1612
<<< 553 5.1.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain of sender address
[EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist
501 5.6.0 Data format error
I think part of the problem is that piper.kevla.org is my router, but I don't
have an A or MX record pointing to that name, and I'm not running Bind/DNS
services on the router. Just using as gateway for internet access, and my
ISPs DNS servers. My A and MX records point to www.kevla.org.
These are being returned from my ISP, so I also think that when they show back
up for delivery, they are getting hung because [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not
exist as a valid account on my email server. But, why aren't they being sent
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your advice greatly appreciated.
Jay
> On Feb 11, 2008 8:55 AM, Jay Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Regardless, I can't seem to get mail forwarding working. The two main
>> openbsd
>> books say all I need to do is create a .forwarding file and give the name of
>> the email address to forward to, but for two months not one email was
>> forwarded.
>
> You have a choice
> echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ~root/.forward
>
> or add an entry to /etc/mail/aliases:
> root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> and then run "newaliases"
>
> CK
>
>
> --
> GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
