[SOLVED] Sendmail - Accept mails to unknown users and route specific user

kingkashif · 07-31-2009, 01:43 PM

Hello,

I need to instruct sendmail to accept mails that are destined to users that are not available on my server and then forward those emails to catchall@mydomain.tld.

Please remember that i don't want to forward every single mail to catchall user. I just want to forward those emails which would be destined for users that do not exist on my server.

i have used define(`LUSER_RELAY', `local:catchall@d.com')
but it doesn't seems to work.

In help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

bathory · 07-31-2009, 03:57 PM

If you don't have many users you can setup /etc/mail/virtusertable like this:

Code:

user1@mydomain.tld user1
user2@mydomain.tld user2
...
userXmydomain.tld userX
@mydomain.tld catchall

Then rebuild virtusertable

Code:

makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable < /etc/mail/virtusertable

kingkashif · 07-31-2009, 05:23 PM

Thanks for your reply. But no that wasn't what i wanted.

@domain.tld catchall

this will send every single message to catchall account. That is also a great feature. But in my problem i wanted to only send those messages to catchall account which were destined to some unknown user/non-existent user on our server.

Fortunately i have solved that problem.

Here is what we should do.

In our /etc/mail/senmail.mc file. put following

Quote:

define(`LUSER_RELAY',`local:catchall')dnl

this will tell sendmail to route all messages to catchall account which are destined for a user which doesn't exist on our server.

Thanks.