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mail alias problem

Hi all, well i am configuring backuppc for awhile, anyway my current problem is, i set a smarthost, configured the mail to use our ISP smtp server, and its working successfully thanks to ALLAH, now i want to set an alias for mails( it was working when it was using the local smtp server), so the backuppc send mail to backuppc, while my /etc/aliases have backuppc: myexternalmail, but its not working now with the external mail, simply i want backuppc when it mail backuppc its converted to myexternalmail@mydomain.com, is it possible ? and how ?, thanks so much.
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whom(1mh)																 whom(1mh)

Name
       whom - report to whom a message is addressed

Syntax
       whom [ options ] [ file ]

Description
       The  command is used to expand the headers of a message into a set of addresses, and optionally to verify that those addresses are deliver-
       able at that time if -check is given.

       The command is often invoked as one of the options offered by the program when you have finished editing a draft  message.   See  for  more
       details.

       If  you	want to run on a named file, you can supply a file argument.  This argument allows you to specify a named file; if you want to run
       on an existing message, use the -draftfolder and -draftmessage options.	If you do not give an absolute pathname (one beginning with a / or
       ./ or ../ ), assumes that the named file is in your current working directory.

Options
       -alias aliasfile
		 Specifies  the  alias file to be consulted by If you have used one or more aliases in your message header, will consult the named
		 file to find those aliases, and will print the full addresses as its output.  You can reference more than one file, but each file
		 name must be preceded by the word -alias.  See for more information.

       -check
       -nocheck  Checks  that  the  addresses  are  valid.  makes no guarantees that the addresses listed as being correct are really deliverable:
		 rather, an address being listed as correct means that at the time that was run, the address was thought to be deliverable by  the
		 transport  service.   For local addresses, this means that the local user does exist, and that the address was deliverable at the
		 time of checking.  For network and uucp addresses, it means that the syntax of the address is valid.

       -draft	 Sets the draft message to be the standard file in your Mail directory.

       -draftfolder folder
       -nodraftfolder
		 Specifies the folder in which searches for the draft message.	The default is to use the current message  in  the  named  folder.
		 You  can select another message by using the -draftmessage option.  For more information on using a draft folder, see The -draft-
		 folder option is often set up in your user profile; see for more information.

       -draftmessage msg
		 Specifies the draft message to be used.  If you specify a folder with the -draftfolder option, the -draftmessage option takes the
		 number  of a message in that folder.  If you do not specify a folder, -draftmessage takes the name of a file.	If you do not give
		 an absolute pathname (one beginning with a / or ./ or ../ ), -draftmessage assumes that the file is located in your  Mail  direc-
		 tory.

       -help	 Prints a list of the valid options to this command.

       -mts smtp Specifies the format of the addresses to be checked.  The only value allowed is smtp, which checks that addresses are deliverable
		 over the standard ULTRIX mail system.	Additional values are supported only for use with other mail systems.

       The defaults for this command are:

	      file defaults to
	      -nocheck
	      -alias /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases
	      -mts smtp

Restrictions
       For this version, the -mts option only supports the value smtp.	Additional values are supported for use only with other mail systems.

Examples
       In the following example, would use the current message in the folder:
       % whom -draftfolder +drafts
	 smith: address OK

       In the next example, searches for message 2 in the folder
       % whom -draftfolder +drafts -draftmessage 2
	 davis@hostname: address OK

Profile Components
       Path:	       To determine your MH directory (mh-dir)
       Draft-Folder:   To find the default draft-folder
       postproc:       Program to post the message

Files
       The user profile.

See Also
       comp(1mh), mh-alias(5mh), post(8mh)

																	 whom(1mh)