[cobalt-users] [RAQ3] cgi / email forwarding - aliases

["JC Jones" <jcjones@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

   I have encountered an interesting problem that I was wondering
if anyone else has also encountered.  I have written several CGI
scripts (in perl) to send information through email to my customers.
I have had no problems at all with them working until today.  I
wrote one that sent mail to an alias address on the same server, and
the alias address was attached to a POP address which in turn was
forwarding to another alias address on the same server for another
POP address.

mail sent to alias1@xxxxxxxxxxx
alias1@xxxxxxxxxxx is alias for pop1@xxxxxxxxxx
pop1@xxxxxxxxxx points to alias2@xxxxxxxxxxx
alias2@xxxxxxxxxxx is alias for pop2@xxxxxxxxxx

It would seem that the mail should wind up at pop2@xxxxxxxxxx, 
but it seems to disappear somewhere instead.

pop2@xxxxxxxxxx was not receiving any email at all from the script.
when changing the script to send mail to pop2@xxxxxxxxxx, the
mail would go through fine.  Normally, I would not worry about this
problem and I would always have scripts send mail to POP accounts,
but I cannot always control that as I have several hosting clients
that write their own CGI scripts.  Is there a known fix for this
maybe in the sendmail config or something as I am sure that this
could eventually cause a customer service nightmare for us.

Also, can anyone tell me where I might look on the server to find
this lost mail that never made it to a POP account?

Thank You,
JC Jones