[TriLUG] Quick aliases question

[Rick DeNatale]

On 3/6/06, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>    Does /etc/aliases get evaluated before procmail gets its hands on a
> message?

Yes.

> I realized I have a couple aliases such as:
>
> bob: /var/mail/bob,bob-at-home at home.com
>
> in order to have bob's mail go through to his account, as well as
> getting copied to his home account.  Then I thought, hey, maybe the
> reason bob's mail seems to not be getting scanned by SpamAssassin is
> because the aliases file is dumping it right into his mail spool and
> procmail is never seeing it.
>
> And if that's the case, what's the best way to get someone's e-mail
> address to go two (or more) places like that, without changing their
> address to a new alias?

Perhaps you can adapt this technique:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7513

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Rick DeNatale

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