[Esa-l] Outgoing Mail

Andy Feldt feldt at mail.nhn.ou.edu
Thu Aug 16 15:09:54 PDT 2001


Howard,

Yes, this is possibly true, but for the small number of such addresses
I have, the overhead of managing majordomo is not worth it.  I'd prefer
to keep the simple management of my aliases file and do the outgoing
filtering.
---
Andy Feldt
Senior System Support Programmer
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Oklahoma

Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Could this not be done by using a mailing list manager such as majordomo.
> All traffic to majordomo is delivered locally AFAIK.
> 
> -- 
> Howard.
> LANNet Computing Associates
> Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com
> 
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Andy Feldt wrote:
> 
> > Please be aware that some of us have mail aliases which, in whole or
> > in part, deliver to non-local addresses.  Thus, if I have an alias like:
> >
> > thegroup: fred,tom,clueless at seattle
> >
> > and someone (anyone), sends e-mail to thegroup at mymailhost.mydomain
> > only fred and tom are protected if the sender is sending a virus.
> > Yet, if if clueless at seattle is really a part of my organization but
> > prefers to read his/her e-mail elsewhere, I want to protect him/her, too,
> > even though I have no control over the final delivery mail server.



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