off topic: email forwarding assistance/guidance needed

[lester lasad]

--- "H.P. Noordam" <bno at SALVAGEBV.NL> wrote:

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> <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK> wrote on 10/11/2004
> 16:47:01:
>
> > My MailScanner/Sendmail server is relaying email
> to 2
> > seperate domains.  A majority of my users (3000)
> have
> > email accounts in the "abc.com" domain, but we
> have
> > roughly 40 users that have an account in both the
> > abc.com and xyz.com domains.
> >
> > The 40 isers in the abc.com and xyz.com domain use
> > both addresses at this point but, I would like to
> > deliver emails for both addresses to one domain.
> > example:  if lester at xyz.com receives an email I
> would
> > like sendmail to route the email to lester at abc.com
> > (instead of the xyz.com address).  The xyz.com
> domain
> > will be obsolete in the future but I can't get rid
> of
> > it yet but I would like to eliminate the xyz.com
> host
> > that sendmail is relaying to.
> >
> > Hopefully what I said makes sense, if not, please
> ask
> > for additional info.  Thanks in advance for your
> > assistance.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> the virtusertable (/etc/mail/virtusertable) enables
> you to map single
> users or complete domains to other recipients, so
> thats is the place to
> map *@xyz to *@abc.
>
> Bob.
>
Thanks for the info.  I did try to forward one
particular users email unsuccessfully and  wanted to
give you more specifics on my setup.

my mailertable says the following:
abc.com    esmtp:abcmailsvr.abc.com
xyz.com    esmtp:xyzmailsvr.xyz.com

I added the following to the /etc/mail/virtusertable:
lester at xyz.com      lester at abc.com  (which should send
the email to lester at abc.com)

I then tried to send an email to lester at xyz.com and
received the following:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal
errors -----
<lester at xyz.com>
    (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
553 5.3.5 xyzmailsvr.xyz.com. config error: mail loops
back to me (MX
problem?)
554 5.3.5 Local configuration error

I must be missing something.  thanks.



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