Fedora Core 2 & mailertable not working?

paddy paddy at PANICI.NET
Thu May 27 18:26:19 IST 2004


On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:32:58PM -0400, David CM Weber wrote:
> Hey all.  I've searched the internet, and haven't found any complete
> information, so I figured I'd post.
>
> I've got a fairly typical setup.  Fedora Core 2 system which is running
> sendmail & mailscanner which will process and then forward all email to
> an internal email server.
>
> I found that the "best" way to do this, is to add an entry in the
> /etc/mail/mailertable file.  After setting up the system to listen on
> the non-localhost interface, I added the mailertable entry.
>
>  tried to send an email through it using Outlook Express, with the FC2
> system as the outbound server. (Mind you, the fedora & exchange systems
> are both still internal to the firewall)
>
> At first, it complained about not forwarding for this domain.  I added
>
> LOCAL_DOMAIN(`backbonesecurity.com')dnl

I would guess that you don't want tio do that.  mailertable does not
happen on local mail.
given that, look at relay-domains or adding "To:backbonsecurity.com RELAY" to
aliases

> To the sendmail.mc file, and that message went away (my own mistake)
>
> Now, it's complaining about "User Unknown"
>
> I obviously missed something, but I haven't figured out what.  Are there
> any suggestions that you guys might have?
>
> Thanks
>
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