off topic: email forwarding assistance/guidance needed

[Bob Noordam]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] Namens lester lasad
> Verzonden: donderdag 11 november 2004 22:49
> Aan: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Onderwerp: Re: off topic: email forwarding assistance/guidance needed
>
> --- Mike Kercher <mike at CAMAROSS.NET> wrote:
>
> > lester lasad wrote:
> > > --- "H.P. Noordam" <bno at SALVAGEBV.NL> wrote:
> > >
> > >> MailScanner mailing list
> > >> <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.
> > >
> >
> > Do you have abc.com and xyz.com in your
> > /etc/mail/local-host-names or
> > /etc/mail/relay-domains?  They should be in
> > relay-domains.  Also, make sure
> > you hashed your virtusertable to db.
> >
> > You will need to restart sendmail to read the
> > relay-domains after
> > modification.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> abc.com and xyz.com are not in
> /etc/mail/local-host-names.  But, they are in
> /etc/mail/relay-domains
>
> forgive me, but I'm not sure what you mean by "make
> sure you hashed your virtusertable to db"
>

sendmail does not reed the textfiles directly, is uses a database file you
need to create from the textfiles.
If you alter any file, say virtusertable, you need to issue the command

makemap hash virtusertable.db < virtusertable

With that, you create the new file sendmail will use.
After that, restart sendmail and it will 'see' the modifications.

> I have restarted sendmail as well.  When I send the
> email it is still routing to the xyz.com host and not
> the abc.com host.  I want to take the xyz.com host out
> of the picture.  Should I remove it from my
> mailertable and see what happens?
>

thats worth a try, if xyz is mentioned nowhere, and it still resolves to its
own mx you should look further into possible dns issues.

Bob.

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