On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Daryl Williams wrote:

> i am trying to get sendmail to forward emails addressed to me at my
> local domain
> to be forwarded to another server in another domain. i have placed
> myself in the
> local alias file:
>
> myself:     me@someotherplace.net
>
> and put "someotherplace.net" in the /etc/mail/relay-domains, however the

This is not needed. By default, sendmail already lets you email out.

> mail
> never seems to make it off the local domain server. i have tried placing my
> local domainname in the /etc/local-host-names file of the remote server but
> that didn't help and as i said, the mail doesn't seem to leave my local
> domain
> server when i monitor the logs.

What do your logs say when you email to "myself" (or whatever that
particular username is).

Are you editing the correct aliases file? (Maybe /etc/mail/aliases.) (I
assume that the aliases database is being updated automatically; or run
newaliases.)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/