topic Re: checking virtusertable before the domain name in sendmail in Operating System - Linux

checking virtusertable before the domain name in sendmail

Sachin_48 — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:49:20 GMT

Hi all

I want a new think I want to check my /etc/mail/virtusertable entries to be checked first for relaying any mail before the /etc/mail/local-hosts-names file.

Can someone help me.

Thanks
Sachin

Re: checking virtusertable before the domain name in sendmail

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:54:25 GMT

may I ask you what is you target configuration? As far as I understand, order is not important here.

Re: checking virtusertable before the domain name in sendmail

Sachin_48 — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:50:57 GMT

infect what i want is let say I have the domain abc.com and in my local-hosts-names file also I have only this entry.
Now if I will send a mail to A@xyz.com then it will go the smart host.
while I want to relay this to one local user using virtusertable file.

havin entry in virtusertable.
A@xyz.com A //local user

And that can not be done if it will check local-hosts file first.

So if any other method is there pls tell me

sachin

Re: checking virtusertable before the domain name in sendmail

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:19:43 GMT

Shalom Sachin,

This is still difficult for me to understand.

local-host-names file defines what domains will be processed locally on your system.

In combination with a DS directive in sendmail.cf that should in theory permit you to forward all domains except those listed in local-host-names file to the relay server defined as smsrt host(DS).

The virtusertables file will define the valid users in the domains listed in local-host-names

That is how it should work.

Sendmail is a tricky beast and you may find things are easier to control with a sendmail.mc macro approach.

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