Desparate Sendmail Question

[manny_9]

redhat 9/sendmail
groupwise 6.5
webmin

I am using webmin administration to configure sendmail to relay email to groupwise.
Do I just use the Send outgoing mail via host module in webmin and forward to the groupwise server?

How would I configure sendmail to accept mail for xxxx.net and relay to groupwise without using the sendmail accounts??

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

That would involve virtual domain hosting.

Quite simple and laid out in this document:
http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html

You will probably need to set up 1 account to accomplish the forwarding

call it gwise

in /etc/aliases

gwise: account_on_groupwise_server

You may not have to do this.

Virtual hosting will get you the tools you need to do the job.

SEP

[manny_9]

Thanks!! I really need the help.

If I ...


gwise: account_on_groupwise_server

I still get a user unknown error
or
it's connects and mail is sent.But the mail stays on the linux box it doesn't make it to the groupwise server.

[Steven E. Protter]

I'm sorry, my procedure was incomplete

Before starting anything in my original post:

as root

useradd gwise
passwd gwise

# that creates the user and you need to set a password.

Now you can do the /etc/aliases mail forwarding in the original post.

As far as the account name after the colon You need to have that user set up on your groupwise server. I can't help you with that.

Also, You will probably need to rebuild your alias file for the mail to go through. I'm attaching a script that does that, though you will have to look through it, compare it to the one in sendmail.org and comment out the parts you don't need.

SEP

[manny_9]

I must have really screwed things up.
I did as you instructed and i still can't get mail to the groupwise server.

I even tried the mailertable way.

any pointers on what I should look for?

Thanks

[Naveej.K.A]

hi manny,

relaying is possible using the DS Macro in the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. search DS and put the name of the domain where you want to relay your mails. IP address of this relay server should be resolved using any of the resolver. ie. you have to put corresponding entry in /etc/hosts or add in the DNS database

regds
naveej

[manny_9]

I would like to thank you both for your help!!


I did it!!!

Linux server is now relaying to the groupwise server.

One more question.
Since everything goes directly to groupwise now...
is there a way to have certain accounts on the linux/sendmail server not go to the groupwise server?

[Steven E. Protter]

Just set up the accounts on the Linux machine.

useradd
passwd


Immediately mail to those accounts will go to /var/mail/username

The mail can be accessible by imap or pop if you set those daemons up to run.

SEP