[nflug] Alias Question

[Justin Bennett]

I didn't change anything in sendmail.mc. Maybe it changed in newer versions?


Robert Meyer wrote:

>Hmmm... I guess I have to re-examine my understanding about virtusertable.  I
>was under the impression that if there wasn't an entry there for a user, it
>wouldn't deliver it at all...
>
>Hmmm... Maybe there's an option for that.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>
>--- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Good info.
>>
>>This is what I did:
>>
>>in /etc/aliases
>>
>>jobs: bill
>>
>>in virtualusertable
>>jobs at domain.com.nz: rob
>>
>>anything that comes in to jobs at domain.com gets cought by the jobs alias 
>>and gets delivered to bill, anything that goes to jobs at domain.com.nz is 
>>being handles by the virtualusertable and goes to rob..
>>
>>I only have the one entry in virtualuserstable. The rest of my mail is 
>>being delivered ok..
>>
>>
>>I didn't change the sendmail.mc. My sendmail was already configured for 
>>virtualusertable.
>>
>>
>>
>>Robert Meyer wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>OK, here's how it works:
>>>you add the line:
>>>FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl
>>>
>>>to the sendmail.mc file.
>>>
>>>Then create a file called 'virtusertable' in /etc/mail.  Put ALL of your
>>>      
>>>
>>users
>>    
>>
>>>in the file like:
>>>user at domain.com user
>>>
>>>where 'user at domain.com' is the incoming address.  'user' is the place to
>>>deliver the mail.  If you wanted an 'info' address for two different
>>>      
>>>
>>domains,
>>    
>>
>>>do:
>>>jobs at domain.com user1
>>>jobs at domain.com.nz user2
>>>
>>>Note that if you use this, EVERY user that gets email has to be in this file
>>>      
>>>
>>or
>>    
>>
>>>the mail to the address will be rejected.
>>>
>>>Cheers!
>>>
>>>Bob
>>>
>>>
>>>--- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>You want to use 'virtusertable' in /etc/mail.  You will have to make a DB
>>>>file
>>>>out of it.  Typically you have to run 'make' in /etc/mail.
>>>>
>>>>Cheers!
>>>>
>>>>Bob
>>>>
>>>>--- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>I have a server that handles emails for serveral domains.
>>>>>say domain.com
>>>>>and domain.com.nz
>>>>>
>>>>>they both get delivered to the users on the box so joe at domain.com and 
>>>>>joe at domain.com.nz both goto joe.
>>>>>
>>>>>what I want to do is setup two aliased
>>>>>say
>>>>>jobs at domain.com
>>>>>and
>>>>>jobs at domain.com.nz
>>>>>
>>>>>and have these goto different people.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm just using the standard sendmail/procmail config that comes with 
>>>>>redhat 2.1.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>Justin
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