Using sendmail to redirect selected email

[Mike Kercher]

By selected customers, do you mean on a per user or per domain level?

For per domain, use the mailertable feature on your sendmail box.  Have that
box deliver directly to the maildrop for each domain.

Mike

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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Steven Schmidt
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:30 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Using sendmail to redirect selected email
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a bit of a scaling problem.
>
> Senario.
> Frontend box running Sendmail which redirects email traffic
> for selected customers to a box running MailScanner.
> MailScanner does the Spam/Virus check, then forwards to final
> maildrop.
> For non-selected customers, it forwards the mail though to
> the final maildrop directly.
> I am using a redirect statement for each redirect customer in
> sendmail config to redirect selected email. Works fine but is
> not very scalable.
> (Works fine for a couple of thousand, but if I want to go any
> higher, will need to change the way I'm doing it)
>
> Anybody else using sendmail to decide who gets scanned and
> who doesn't.  Any ideas would be appreciated.
> (Have been considering qmail, but this would require major
> changes to the
> frontend)
>
> Regards
> Steven Schmidt.
>
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