RE: How is aliasing different than forwarding.

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Old 01-27-2004
Rick Erlandson
 
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Default RE: How is aliasing different than forwarding.

> Forwarding is aliasing a local address to a non-local address thereby
> turning what would otherwise be final delivery into a relay hop. No
> additional rewriting is involved.


Ok, so if I got this right. It has nothing to do with whether the original
'to' account exists? If the final destination in the alias mapping is local
it is considered an alias, and if it is a remote address it is considered a
forward? Makes sense. Well, I hope I got i this right for a change..

Thanks

Rick Erlandson


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