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Re: sendmail virtusers question



hi ya robert

did you do a make ( to reuild the db ) in /etc/mail ??

did you restart sendmail afterward ??

dont use ~/user/.forward file... pain-in-the-rump in the long run

have fun
alvin

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Robert Waldner wrote:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> Following situation:
> 
> I have a domain where some specific addresses (someone@domain.tld) 
>  should be accepted and then be forwarded to another address 
>  (someone@otherdomain.tld).
> 
> So I thought that the perfect job for the virtusertable, did some 
>  entries of the form
> someone@domain.tld:			someone@otherdomain.tld
>  rebuilt the database, but no, that doesn't work.
> 
> "Local configuration error. MX list points back to me". The only MX is 
>  for the box in question, of course. Ok, put domain.tld in 
>  local-host-names. No, doesn't work, either:
> 
> Sep 29 13:14:15 ka sendmail[905]: NAA00903: to=<someone@domain.tld>,
>  delay=00:00:15, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=cyrus, stat=User unknown
> 
> The virtusertable doesn't seem to get read when the domain is 
>  local-host-names...
> 
> Now, before I start doing something really ugly involving local users 
>  and .forwards, any hints for me? I'm usually quite able to help myself 
>  wrt sendmail but there must be some knot in my brain here.
> 



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