[TriLUG] stupid sendmail question

[Jon Carnes]

Check out:
  http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html

The virtual user tables are only for converting virtual hosting of local
accounts, not remote accounts.

You could simply make a rather large /etc/aliases file that has an entry for
every old user and forwards the mail on to the user's new email address.
Why is it that politics always makes so much work for IT?

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Portzer" <jeremyp at pobox.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 3:46 PM
Subject: [TriLUG] stupid sendmail question


>
> Okay, so I want to configure a box to receive mail for "old-domain.ocm"
> and forward it to "new-domain.ocm" (leaving the user portion the same).
> New-domain.ocm is a different server.  Yes, I know it would be simpler to
> program that server to receive mail for old-domain, but I can't do that
> for strange political reasons.
>
> I've been told this can be done in sendmail with an entry in
> /etc/mail/virtusertable like this:
>
> %1 at old-domain.ocm         %1 at new-domain.ocm
>
> ("makemap hash virtusertable.db < virtusertable" to apply the changes, of
> course)
>
> If I don't put old-domain.ocm in /etc/mail/local-host-names (formerly
> sendmail.cw), then I get Relaying Denied messages.  But if I do add
> old-domain.ocm to that list, sendmail tries to receive mail locally
> instead of following the virtusertable instructions (usually resulting in
> User Not Found).  What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for any tips.  I'm sure I'm missing something completely obvious
> here.  Running RHL 6.2 (don't ask) with sendmail 8.11.6-1.6.y .
>
> --Jeremy
>
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