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Date:      Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:24:07 -0500
From:      Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
To:        Ivan Rambius Ivanov <rambiusparkisanius@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Forwarding all mail to a local user
Message-ID:  <C1FF04AD-821F-4063-B51D-051AF83578FB@goldmark.org>
In-Reply-To: <89ce7f740808311800l15ed3df2k4b549cbf8f257f87@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <89ce7f740808311800l15ed3df2k4b549cbf8f257f87@mail.gmail.com>

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On Aug 31, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote:

> I have the following questions. How can I forward all mail sent to
> <anyone>@localhost to a rambius@localhost, where rambius is my own
> user account in my FreeBSD system and <anyone> can be anything
> including a user name that does not exist on the local machine?

> I have default sendmail installation as provided by the base system
> with no modifications of my own.

You should edit

  /etc/mail/virtusertable

to include a line like

  @localhost  rambius@localhost

There is a sample virtusertable you can look at.

After you have edited the virtusertable file, you should run

  make maps

in that directory.

Cheers,

-j



-- 
Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/




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