From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 11 0:59:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from andromeda. (test.register.md [209.26.120.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 515621523C for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:59:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin@wholesalehosting.com) Received: from bob by andromeda. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id EAA15050; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:01:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:58:31 -0500 From: admin To: Gregory Neil Shapiro Cc: SendMail Questions , "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re[2]: Domain Alias/Client Relays In-Reply-To: <14055.32642.588776.684420@scooter.sendmail.com> References: <36E77E88398.9556ADMIN@domains.md> <14055.32642.588776.684420@scooter.sendmail.com> Reply-To: admin@wholesalehosting.com Message-Id: <36E785B7226.9557ADMIN@domains.md> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver 1.24 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:32:02 -0800 (PST) Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > admin> when mail comes for my user 'tasha' for whom i host tashita.org : > admin> a.) The mail checks the /etc/virtusertable/ > admin> b.) Finds the entry @tashita.org tasha > admin> c.) drops the mail off to tasha's home direcotry. > > admin> Thats all good... but tasha wants to add a whole slew of aliases > admin> herself.. like support, admin, feiend1, friend2 and so on. > > admin> I run FreeBSD 2.2.8 and SendMail 8.9.3/8.9.3 - and was told that i > admin> could add aliases to a file in the user's home directory - but i > admin> haven't been successful in accomplishing what i need to be able to > admin> provide my friends/clients with. If someone could explain this and > admin> present me with an example format i'd be very grateful. > > If the aliases have to point to different people, you will have to give > tasha a method of editing the virtusertable entries for that domain. > No can do, this is somethign i want all my clients to be able to do and ya cant just go giving everybody write access to the virtusertable ya know.. I was thinking of something more like this .. (Note: this won't function i know.. but its in example if what i want to do. Feel free to develop this idea into a later version - i know several people who would find this useful.) --- /etc/virtusertable --- ## tashita.org's section ## @tashita.org /usr/home/tashita/virtusertable --- end --- In this example... the root virtusertable passes the mail to the client's virtusertable which processes the data.. something like this. --- /usr/home/tashita/virtusertable --- default mail alias1 email@otherplace.com alias1 friend@somewhere.com alias3 bob@bob.com --- end --- ------------------------------ Wholesale Hosting Inc. Po.Box 273 Davidsonville, MD 21035 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message