Sendmail Question

L. Adrian Griffis adrian at nerds.org
Tue Sep 24 23:33:13 CDT 2002


On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Mark Hutchings wrote:
> Let's say I have a linux server that is a mail server for domain.com.
> If I setup an mail alias joe at domain.com to forward to joe at yahoo.com,
> would a 2MB email go to my email server, then get sent back out to joe at yahoo.com
> (total 4MB of bandwith) or does it hit my server, then gets relayed before
> really getting "downloaded" to my server?

It actually gets transfer to your server and back out again, taking
up $MB of "bandwidth".

Adrian




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