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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