Help required to setting forwarder to external mail id on sendmail

lokeshreddy4u · 06-30-2008, 01:51 PM

Hi,

I want to set forwarder on sendmail to forward all my mails to yahoo account.

my account is lreddy@abc.com --> Exchange email id .

We are using sendmail as MTA. all mails will be delivered based on mailertable rules.

Can some one guide me how to proceed ..

bathory · 07-01-2008, 01:57 AM

If you have a home dir in the box running sendmail you can create a .forward file containing the address you want the mail to be forwarded. You can also use /etc/mail/aliases to do the same thing. You need to run newaliases afterwards for the changes to make effetct.
Else if it's a virtual mail address you must use /etc/mail/virtusertable to make the association. After that you must run:

Code:

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

lokeshreddy4u · 07-01-2008, 03:23 PM

Actually mail box belongs to exchange.

All my company mails forwards to exchange server for delivery.

already i tried by adding email is on virtusertable like..

lreddy@abc.com lokesh@yahoo.com

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But still mails are going to exchange mailbox , its not forwarding to yahoo account.

i am using mailertable for smtp replay..

abc.com esmtp:xxx.xxx.xxx ( exchange server ).

Can you explain is virtusertable will execute before / after mailertable ?

Awaiting for your responce..

Thanx

bathory · 07-02-2008, 03:28 AM

I'm not sure, but I think that virtusertable is read first and then mailertable. You can use just virtusertable to do what you want, like this:

Code:

lreddy@abc.com lokesh@yahoo.com
@abc.com %1@exchange.server

so your mail will be forwarded to yahoo and anybody's else will go to the exchange server.
Another possibility is to use ldap_routing, that I think is more suitable for your case.

If this is not what you want, then you should do the forwarding from your account on exchange server.