[lug] sendmail question

[Dan Ferris]

Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that.  It ignores virtualusertable 
and aliases and happily forwards to the destination server.

Hugh Brown wrote:
> Dan Ferris wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anybody know a quick and easy way to rewrite an email address 
>> like so with sendmail:
>>
>> user at server.domain.com ----->  user at localhost
>>
>> I'm trying to redirect mail from some remote servers to an account on 
>> the local email exchanger and it would be much easier to rewrite the 
>> address with sendmail than to change 50 boxes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan Ferris
>
>
> I don't think you need to.  If user exists on localhost, and sendmail 
> knows that it is to receive mail for all the server.domain.com hosts 
> and localhost is listed as the MX for all of the server.domain.com's, 
> then I would think that it would deliver to user at localhost.
>
> If it's not that simple, I've made to many assumptions based on lack 
> of more info.
>
> Otherwise, I'd look at virtusertable or aliases.
>
> Hugh
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