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Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD

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On Fri 24 May 2024 at 13:08:56 (-0400), Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 06:40:09PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:45:56AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > 
> > > If I send an email directly to paulf@yosemite.mars.lan from buckaroo, it
> > > arrives. That means this config can do what it's designed to do, basically.
> > > However, mails to "root" on buckaroo don't get to yosemite. They should,
> > > because my /etc/aliases table looks like this:
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > ...
> > > root    paulf@yosemite.mars.lan
> > > ---
> > 
> > Still out of my depth with OpenSMTPD, but... good ol' aliases,of sendmail
> > lore would have a colon after the "root" up there. The MTAs I know of
> > all have inherited that.
> 
> There is a colon in my aliases file. I just omitted it in the email.

I don't know anything about opensmtpd, but use exim4 where, to send
emails to other hosts on the LAN, AIUI you either need a DNS server
that can resolve the LAN addresses or, instead, a hubbed hosts file.

Cheers,
David.

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Aliases and OpenSMTPD Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2024-05-24 17:50 +0200
  Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-24 18:50 +0200
    Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2024-05-24 19:10 +0200
      Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-24 19:30 +0200
      Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-24 19:40 +0200
      Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-05-24 20:00 +0200
        Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD didar <nosferatu@purlo.in> - 2024-05-27 14:10 +0200

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