Mail forwarding using Sendmail
 

Hi,

I am using Sendmail ver 8.76.4.16 on Red Hat Linux 7.3 in the gateway mode.Users dont have mailbox on this server , it only has alias and forwards mail to the exchange server.

My server accepts mail for 2 domains lets say abc.com & xyz.com and all users have aliases.

I have a specific requirement of forwarding one of the user's mail to another mail server.

For eg: user1@abc.com wants to forward mails for this id to user1@yahoo.com.

Alias file is not accepting two entries for user1 and it doesnt forward to the external id if i give explicitly agaist the warnings.

Please help

-Yunus

Why would you need 2 aliases?
Simply make any mail to "user1" be forwarded to both the yahoo address and your exchange server with 1 alias.
ie
user1: address1, address2

See also:
man aliases

That user has two id's user1@abc.com & user1@xyz.com. MX record for both the domains are pointing to same server. And that user only wants to forward mails to yahoo for id user1@abc.com, mails for the other id user1@xyz.com still needs to go to the exchange mailbox.

How do i tell sendmail to forward mails for user1@abc.com to yahoo and user1@xyz.com to the exchange mailbox.

Check out:
http://www.skillreactor.org/tutortxt/mailserv.htm
At least one of the config files for Sendmail should allow what you're trying.

You need to /etc/virtusertable.....
where you can forward mails some thing like this.....

webmaster@another-site.com webmasters
@another-site.com marc
sales@my-site.com sales@another-site.com

- here webmaster@another-site.com will forward mail to webmasters users mailbox.

- all @another-site.com mails will forward to marc user mailbox.