Sendmail and the Virtusertable feature

[David Crowe]

Does anyone know how to activate this feature in Sendmail? I uncommented the line "Kvirtuser dbm -o /etc/mail/virtusertable" in the sendmail.cf file along with the only other section that I could find "# handle virtual users". I created the virtusertable using vi and then ran "makemap dbm virtusertable < virtusertable" to complete the process. I can find no documentation on this proceedure so I am basically guessing that this is how it is done. Can anybody help??

[Berlene Herren]

1. Edit the sendmail.cf and uncomment out the following lines

Kvirtuser dbm /etc/mail/virtusertable
All the rules in ruleset SParse1 after comment "# handle virtual users" and before comment "# short Circuit local ..."

2. Create/vi the /etc/mail/virtusertable file and add an address for mapping.

user@hp.com user@atl.hp.com
@fictional.com %1@xyz.com

3. Make the map files.

makemap -v dbm virtusertable < virtusertable


This will create the map files for virtusertable.

virtusertable.dir
virtusertable.pag

Create a script to help automate this procedure.

create "makevt" insert the following line in makevt
makemap -v dbm virtusertable < virtusertable
chmod 700 makevt

4. Add the domain "fictional.com" to the sendmail.cw file.

5. Cycle sendmail to make your changes in the sendmail.cf file active

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Berlene

[David Crowe]

Thanks for the speedy reply.

I have done everything that you mentioned other than put the entry into the .cw file.

Maybe I should give you an idea of what I am trying to do. We handle about 30 different domains coming into our gateway. Some of the domains are handle by different out-sourcing centers and need to be sent to different gateways depending on the user id and domain name. Messy I know but this is how it needs to be done. I need to be able to change the user id and/or domain name and then route them to different gateways.

For example user1@domain.com is changed to user100@other.com.

I have set up a mailertable to route mail going to other.com to go to 192.168.0.50 and domain.com goes to 192.168.100.20. The mailertable works but I can't get user1@domain.com to convert to user100@other.com.

Any ideas if this would work or do I need to setup something different?