I am trying to set up some email forwarding from one address to
many, basically a mailing list without all of the automated
subscription and message archiving. I am trying to figure out if
there is much of a difference between setting up a fake account
and configuring a .forward file vs. doing an alias.

To add some complexity to it, there are some domain name games
involved. I own a personal domain name, and I have recently
gotten a new domain with email fowarding through mydomain.com.
I would like to have it so that an "everyone" address at the new
domain will point to an address on my personal domain. On my own
machine, I will forward it back to the various members of the
neighborhood using their email addresses from the new domain.
 Then mydomain.com will take care of forwarding it to the eventual
destination.

I know that is a lot of forwarding, but mydomain.com does not
support lists, and if I can get away with forwarding it using the
new domain instead of their actual addresses, I only have one
place to update things when addresses change.

It seems to work with a .forward file, but it hadn't been working
a while back, and I was wondering if that was because some of the
addresses were wrong. I read on deja about sendmail having a
problem with .forward files when one or more of the addresses were
wrong, and I was curious if postfix had the same issues.

From reading about aliases, I am confused by when it says
"redirect mail for local recipients". Does that mean only within
the same domain (which wouldn't work for me)? Or is that just
talking about it taking a stop on this machine to see what to do
with it?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of .forward vs. aliases?

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