topic Re: sendmail in Operating System - Linux

sendmail

K.C. Chan — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:19:35 GMT

All,
we've just acquired a new domain. But in-order to get it we promised to forward email for the recipient for 6 months. How do I forward email "joe@xyz.com" to "joe@newxyz.com"? Thanks.

Re: sendmail

Stuart Browne — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:04:52 GMT

Assuming you're 'xyz.com', and it's only one address, just use /etc/alaises, adding an entry:

joe: joe@newxyz.com

and run 'newalaises'.

If it's for the whole domain, you should probably use the /etc/mail/virtusertable with an entry like:

@xyz.com %1@newxyz.com

followed by re-making the hash database (usually just a 'make' in /etc/mail, but otherwise 'makemap hash virtusertable.db < virtusertable').

This will (of course) redirect all of your mail destined for 'xyz.com' as well, so, probably not what your'e after.

Re: sendmail

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 04:19:57 GMT

I did exactly what you said above.

My problem is I want all users of xyz.com to resolve to invest@xyz.com on my server. Thus far, no joy. Any suggestions.

Re: sendmail

Stuart Browne — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 04:23:28 GMT

virtusertable:

@xyz.com invest@xyz.com

*shrug* All mail destined for domain go to a single user.