Setting gateway

Ugo Bellavance ugob at lubik.ca
Fri Dec 7 12:42:07 GMT 2007


Juan Pablo Lorier wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>  
> Thanks for the answer, but I've already done that. I still don's know if 
> it's working because I can't get mail to enter the server to be scanned 
> and send to the mail server because as there are no user accounts for 
> sendmail un the mailscanner gateway, it bounces the mails with the error 
> user unknown.
> As I see it, it's not clean to set every user both in the gateway and in 
> the mail server, so there should be two options:
> - have sendmail not to check for user existence and just accept the mail 
> and forward it to the mail server
> - have sendmail to use the same LDAP database that the mail server.
> 
> I prefer the first for less complexity and to avoid another point of 
> failure.

The first should be possible, many, many many persons do that.

Please give more info on what you did and we'll help you.

Regards,

Ugo



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