#95 Adding an Email Alias
While Mac OS X does include a standard Unix mail transport system built around the venerable and remarkably complex sendmail system, it doesn't enable this system by default. To do that requires a number of complex steps, a task more complex than we can discuss in this book. If you do have sendmail running on your Mac OS X box, however, you'll doubtless want to be able to add mail aliases in a simple manner. But mail aliases aren't in /etc/aliases anymore; they're now part of the NetInfo system. This script offers an easy work-around.
Setting up sendmail
A variety of sites offer instructions on how to set up sendmail on your Mac OS X system, and some simple freeware applications are even available to set it up automatically. ...
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