On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:05:11AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
I can understand queuing, in case the real server is down. That can
be the
simple-minded queuing implemented by most MUA's. But why aliases? Shouldn't
those also be handled by the real server?
System daemons and server applications often send mail to system
accounts. These and root mail need to be aliased to a real person who
is going to be reading the mail from them. The mappings are often
server-specific, or at least department-specific, and cannot be stored
on the central mail server. I'm not talking about huge mailing lists
or hosting virtual mail accounts, just providing the basic
functionality that the default /etc/aliases from sendmail
demonstrates.