Subject: Re: daily (& security) mail not delivered
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/30/2003 18:25:33
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
> > > oh, no, not at all.  if you really have a mail-hub that handles all
> > > your mail, then just make your own submit.cf that points to the
> > > mail-hub instead of to localhost.  boom.  you're done.  simpler than
> > > ever.
> >
> > As I said previously, it doesn't work, because I need alias processing
> > (root mail needs to go to my personal account, not to root on the mail
> > hub).
> 
> Look at the LOCAL_RELAY with LOCAL_USER macros. (See
> /usr/share/sendmail/README.)
> 

I see nothing in the README file to suggest that LOCAL_USER is processed 
by the SMMSP, not by the daemon that runs as root.

R.