OT: /etc/aliases

[Sylvain Phaneuf]

I think I will need to re-compile sendmail to add this feature...  Thanks for the information.

Sylvain

>>> mbowman at UDCOM.COM 16/12/2002 15:13:13 >>>
Er - you should already have one by default.

It is in /etc/mail

Create it in vi or pico (of your preferred editor) then once saved type

makemap hash virtusertable<virtusertable

Then restart sendmail

You may want to spend a few minutes and look at
http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html which has very useful info on
Virtual Hosting

Matthew



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sorry to be so ignorant... where would I create this virtusertable file?
in /etc/mail ?

Sylvain


>>> mbowman at UDCOM.COM 16/12/2002 15:01:54 >>>
Greetings

If a user was on a local domain (for example an ex-employee) you could set
this up in /etc/mail/aliases

fred:     fred at aol.com 

Save the changes then type newaliases -v

If it was a different domain. virtusertable is the answer

fred at abc.com   fred at aol.com 
or
for an entire domain
@abc.com  @aol.com

HTH

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Universal Digital Communications, Mansfield Ohio.
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I am a new MailScanner user and I am very impressed with it to say the
least...

Can someone help on a slightly off topic issue?  We use MailScanner to scan
mail then it relays it to our main mail server, a GroupWise system on
Netware box, with an entry in /etc/mail/mailertable. All works well. But we
would like to use the opportunity of the unix box on which MailScanner runs
to take care of some of the re-direction we need to do for people who have
left us. I am not very good with unix, but I now that in normal
circumstances, putting the entries in /etc/aliases would allow us to
re-direct the mail to the outside world. Unfortunaley, no entries in
/etc/aliases seem to work - probably because of the entry in mailertable.
Is there something I can do to be able to use /etc/aliases?

Thanks in advance.



Sylvain

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