Setting gateway

[Richard Frovarp]

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
>   
This is bad. Your gateway will accept mail for unknown users, your mail 
server will reject, then you cause back scatter.

> - have sendmail to use the same LDAP database that the mail server.
>   
Do this as it will reject to unknown users at the right time and reduce 
load. It's actually easy to do. I have a meeting at the moment, so I 
can't lookup instructions right now.

Richard