Greetings,
I have this one problem with virtual domain/ hosting using sendmail-8.12.6. I've configured everything according to the sendmail website's guide to virtual hosting. Right now I have 6 virtual domains. All of them are working: i can send mail to the domains from outside and reply from it. My problem is, for some reason sendmail refuses to follow the mappings in the /etc/mail/virtusertable. For example, I have this inside the /etc/mail/virtusertable file:

suzana@virtdomain1.com suzana

I can send an email to suzana@virtdomain1.com, no problem. But the thing is, I have another user, john, in the server and he doesnt have the mapping inside the /etc/mail/virtusertable file. The strange thing is, when I tried to send email to john@virtdomain1.com, he can receive it! It was there inside his mailbox. How can this be? I thought only user suzana can receive mail for virtuserdomain1.com since her account is mapped inside the virtusertable file?

Please help me..I've been stuck with this problem for days..

Suzana

The configuration is server side only for permission to access virtual hosts, and the /etc/* files are global, not per user. You will have to specify per user denial server side, or segregate the virtual domains out.

I'm sorry, i'm going to ask a silly question:

how excatly do i specify per user denial server side, or segregate out the virtual domains?

thanks a lot.

suzana

Dear Katana

considering I understood you properly, you need a catch all for your domains.

For example, as you have suzanna, the file should look like

suzana@virtdomain1.com suzana
@virtualdomain1.com suzana

the second line tells to forward all other accounts to suzana ( you can have another account, no problem), or you can deny it as well.

Through access table, as far as I can tell, you can deny mails based on sender or recipient addresses as well. This is under the advanced forwarding and relaying option

hope this helps