I have been browsing thru the forums and doing some google searches to find this info with no luck.

RHEL3
Sendmail 8.13.5

I am trying to determine how to set up an address which will deliver email to multiple recipients. For example, assume I have 3 users who work in our HR department:

jsmith
ajones
ltaylor

I want to have an email account (alias) that receives email to:

humanrec@company.com

where this email gets delivered to all 3 users.

Anyone tell me where I can configure this?

Simple, set up your sendmail alias file like so:
Then type 'newaliases' to make sendmail read the changes.

-twantrd

I'll give it a shot tomorrow.

I've added an alias like this:


aliasname: username



and the maillog reports that aliasname@company.com is an unknown user. I ran newaliases and restarted sendmail before I sent the test message. Am I missing something in my sendmail configuration to use the aliases file? btw, the aliases file is in /etc - should there be one in /etc/mail ?

Is DNS set up correctly? Is the MX record pointing to your box? If DNS is not set up, you will have problems with outside users trying to send mail to you.

However, if you are sending mail internally (ie. on that box itself), you should have no problems.

It should be a symbolic link.

-twantrd

My DNS records are fine. I have users already set up on the box and the only messages getting rejected are from bogus domains. Everything else gets thru with no trouble. I am debating not using the aliases file and simply making the entries in the virtusertable file, but I am not sure if I can set it up there to send the email to multiple recipients. I am going to test that this morning.

As it turns out, my resolution was a combination of using both files. Here are what my entries look like:

virtusertable
-------------

humanrec@company.com humanrec




aliases
-------------

humanrec: jsmith, ajones, ltaylor


======================

I had previously discovered that simply creating users on my linux box was not also generating the ability to receive email. In order to do so, I added entries into the virtusertable file. Apparently, by adding such an entry for an alias is also necessary. Thus, the user is not "unknown" by the virtusertable file and is then using the alias file to determine the recipients.

Don't you think its not properly configured.
Why its working becoz of /etc/aliases not virtusertable.