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Date:      Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:46:11 -0500
From:      Chris Cook <ccook@tcworks.net>
To:        Lisa Casey <lisa@jellico.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sendmail: virtual hosts
Message-ID:  <39D21643.54A3DB3E@tcworks.net>
References:  <00b901c02899$0779bd20$be32a0cd@lisa.jellico.com>

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Did you hash the virtusertable file?

This is what you must do:

makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable.db < /etc/mail/virtusertable

Of course adjust for your paths...




Lisa Casey wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is a Sendmail problem but I hope someone here can help me. I'm running
> Sendmail 8.9.3 on FreeBSD 3.2
> 
> My FBSD box accepts mail for the virtual domain hardwickclothes.com and
> sends that E-mail to the local user hardmail. This works just fine.
> 
> Now I want to set up E-mail for another virtual domain,
> gimbelconstruction.com. This domain needs three E-mail addresses:
> sales@gimbelconstruction.com, dan@gimbelconstruction.com, and
> webmaster@gimbelconstruction.com  The sales and dan E-mail need to go to
> dgimbel@jellico.com. The webmaster E-mail needs to go to gimbel@icx.net
> 
> My  /etc/mail/virtusertable now looks like this:
> 
> @hardwickclothes.com    hardmail
> sales@gimbelconstruction.com    dgimbel@jellico.com
> dan@gimbelconstruction.com      dgimbel@jellico.com
> webmaster@gimbelconstruction.com        gimbel@icx.net
> @gimbelconstruction.com dgimbel@jellico.com
> 
> Those are tabs between the fields. In the last one it sure doesnt look like
> a tab, but I deleted it and redid it three times, so I dunno...  I typed a
> tab...
> 
> I added the domain gimbelconstruction.com to /etc/mail/sendmail.cw and to
> /etc/mail/relay-domains and to /etc/sendmail.cG  I didn't do anything with
> /etc/aliases, but don't think I need to. I also haven't done anything with
> /etc/genericstable yet. Not sure what to do there. That file currently has
> one entry in it:
> 
> hardmail @hardwickclothes.com
> 
> hardmail is, of course, the local user that the hardwickclothes.com E-mail
> all goes to. Since none of the gimbelconstruction.com E-mail is going to a
> local user, I'm not sure what to do here.
> 
> Finally I killed and restarted Sendmail and tried sending mail to:
> sales@gimbelconstruction.com.  I get the standard error message: "The
> Message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the
> server. The rejected E-mail address was sales@gimbelconstruction.com  ......
> Server response 'No Such User Here' ".
> 
> What have I done wrong (or failed to do?)? Must I create  local users then
> alias the E-mail to the remote addresses (dgimbel@jellico.com and
> gimbel@icx.net)?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Lisa Casey, Webmaster
> Interstate 2000, Inc.
> lisa@jellico.com
> webmaster@jellico.com
> 
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