[COLUG] sendmail question?
David D. Lucas
ddlucas at lse.com
Wed Jul 7 14:07:54 EDT 2004
You should take advantage of the aliases file to route either specific
users to the new mail server, or if it is easier, route only local users
to the localhost and everyone else to the new server. There are many
ways to do it. Make sure you rebuild the aliases file if it is using
the dbm format and restart sendmail for them to take affect. Do a man
on aliases for more info. You should have the equivalent.
Best wishes,
Dave
P.S. BTW, to fix your current user, see if procmail is or equivalent is
in use and use the ~/.forward to route traffic to user at newserver.com .
frank_rieder at bankone.com wrote:
> If it would blindly send root mail, would it go to root at capital.edu?
> That could cause some confusion for whomever the mail is received.
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> Frank Rieder
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> "Austin Gresham"
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> 07/07/2004 12:01
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> If you want to send all email to another server, called a "Smart Host'
> (i.e.
> your Exchange server) use the Null Client feature in a new m4 configuration
> file, called "nullclient.mc" or whatever you choose. Place this file in
> the
> directory where your "m4" files are, sometimes "/usr/lib/sendmail-cf" or
> equivalent. You'll know the right directory when you see these
> subdirectories:
>
> cf
> domain
> feature
> hack
> m4
> mailer
> ostype
>
> Create the "nullclient.mc" file in this directory and add these lines:
>
> include(`./m4/cf.m4')dnl
> FEATURE(`nullclient',`<nameofinternalmailserver>')dnl
> FEATURE(`nocanonify')dnl
>
> Substitute "<nameofinternalmailserver>" with the hostname or IP address of
> the Exchange Server. Also, be cautious of the backticks vs single quote
> characters above, it makes a big difference.
>
> Save it and run:
>
> # m4 nullclient.mc > sendmail.cf
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> Copy the sendmail.cf over the current sendmail.cf (should be in /etc/mail)
> and restart sendmail.
>
> That's a basic configuration, but it's a place to start. Be aware that
> this
> will blindly forward all email, even if sent to "root" or another local
> account. This may not be what you want. If it's not, then there are other
> slightly more complicated ways to do it.
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> -Austin
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: colug-bounces at colug.net
>>[mailto:colug-bounces at colug.net] On Behalf Of Dave Reed
>>Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 9:45 AM
>>To: colug at colug.net
>>Subject: [COLUG] sendmail question?
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>>
>>At work they switched to a new mail server (running MS exchange I
>>think). We still have Sun Solaris machines running sendmail. When a
>>message is sent to dreed at capital.edu it goes through the new mail
>>server and is delivered correctly, but when it is sent to just dreed,
>>sendmail delivers it locally to /var/mail/dreed.
>>
>>The sysadmin is not a sendmail expert (nor a member of this list) but
>>I told him I'd ask if anyone knew how to configure sendmail to always
>>use a separate mailserver. He mentioned something about a "dumb" or
>>"null" setting but google hasn't found the answer for him yet.
>>
>>Can anyone help?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Dave
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