On 12/17/10 6:49 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:27 AM, sync<jiannma at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Les Mikesell<lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/16/10 2:56 AM, sync wrote: >>>> Hi , guys : >>>> >>>> >>>> I have a problem about the sendmail replay . The following is my >>>> condition: >>>> >>>> I have installed the sendmail server on my laptop which installed >>>> CentOS 5.5 >>>> x86 64, >>>> and I want to set up the sendmail replay. >>>> >>>> >>>> That is to say . If my linux account called test and his mail address is >>>> test at test.com<mailto:test at test.com>, >>>> when he get the new mail, then the server send the mail to the company >>>> mail >>>> server , >>>> the new mail address is test at aa.com<mailto:test at aa.com> >>> >>> I assume you mean relay instead of replay, but your example requires the >>> address >>> to be re-written so maybe you mean forwarding. For known users you can >>> manage >>> this with aliases. >>> >> >> Thanks for all suggestions. > > I didn't see "install exim". You see, sendmail is very poor about > dealing with unqualified local email addresses: "root" and yout local > account name won't get relayed to the smarthost unless you set up > aliases or .forwards or other settings for them, anyway. Being able to configure those separately is a feature, not a bug. But another problem is that these days most systems you would forward to won't accept email unless the 'From: ' has a domain that can be resolved in DNS which can be hard to arrange on system-generated mail on some ad-hoc machine. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com