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.
