virtusertable syntax -- plz help

[Maaz]

I want that every mail to john will go to james.
I have achieve this from /etc/alias file, as:
#vi /etc/aliases
john: james
#newaliases

But I have heard and read also that it can also be done via virtusertable
#vi virtusertable
john@ james
#make

But when I mail to john...instead of james, john received the mail.
from /var/log/maillog
May 10 22:43:59 mail sendmail[2594]: k4AHhxgi002594: from=, size=312, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1147283028.2415.2.camel@mail>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=pcact.test.net [10.100.200.15]
May 10 22:43:59 mail sendmail[2594]: k4AHhxgi002594: to=, delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30312, dsn=4.4.3, stat=sent

why ?

Regards
Maaz

[Sung Oh · Accepted solution]

Hello,

here is virtusertable syntax example. I would recommnad that you use full email address rather then just aliases. Also you must restart sendmail to read updated table.

http://www.defcon1.org/html/Software_Articles/File-Share/Qmail-install/Story/virtusertable.html

Regards,
Sung

[Rajeev Shukla]

Make sure your sendmail is configured to handle virtusertable. Your sendmail.mc file should have this line uncommented (meaning no "dnl" in front of it) and create sendmail.cf file.
FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl

have a look at the README.cf file in /usr/share/doc/sendmail this explains the use of virtusertable in a very detailed way, here is some part of it

info@foo.com foo-info
info@bar.com bar-info
joe@bar.com error:nouser 550 No such user here
jax@bar.com error:5.7.0:550 Address invalid
@baz.org jane@example.net

then mail addressed to info@foo.com will be sent to the
address foo-info, mail addressed to info@bar.com will be
delivered to bar-info, and mail addressed to anyone at baz.org
will be sent to jane@example.net, mail to joe@bar.com will
be rejected with the specified error message, and mail to
jax@bar.com will also have a RFC 1893 compliant error code
5.7.0.

Cheers
Rajeev

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

I suggest you to use the /etc/aliases file
for local users address translation.

Read here for more info:
http://www.yak.net/fqa/190.html

[Ivan Ferreira]

Virtualusertable is normally used when you host multiple domains in your server, it allows you to specify the domain part in the table. You can also do something like this:

# All messages to ha goes to testha
ha@test-virtual.com testha

# All mesages to domain test-virtual.com goes to root
@test-virtual.com root

# All messages to domain test2-virtual.com goest to the same user but in the domain test-same-si.com
@test2-virtual.com %1@test-same-si.com

[Maaz]

Thanks All ;)