Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:37:40 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail and aliases/virtusertable/genericstable Message-ID: <3975AF24.ADA7CF8D@wmptl.com> References: <3975AC5F.386062AE@miltonstreet.com>
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Sam Carleton wrote: > > In the process of trying to map a username into something else as the > email comes and goes from sendmail, I have locked up sendmail. Right > now when I try to send mail through pine, pine freezes at the send. > This is what I have done: > > Ok, I have the following lines in my sendmail.cf: > > # Generics table (mapping outgoing addresses) > Kgenerics hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable > > # Virtual user table (maps incoming users) > Kvirtuser hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable > > and I created one source file for Generics table that will convert > email from sam to scarleton, it looks like this: > > sam scarleton@domain.com > > and then a source file for Virtual user table as to map > scarleton@domain.com back to sam: > > scarleton@domain.com sam > > I have also modified the alias file. Then I used makemap in this > fashion to create /etc/mail/genericstable.db, > /etc/mail/virtusertable.db, and /etc/alias.db > > makemap hash genericstable < gsourcefile > makemap hash virtusertable < vsourcefile > makemap hash aliases < aliases > > I first had done only the genericstable and virtusertable. The outgoing > > email name was NOT being traslated for me:( After changing alias and > running makemap on it, that is when pine started freezing when trying to > > send mail. Should I be using makemap to create the files or is there > another program I should be using for the default config on FreeBSD > 4.0-STABLE? > > Sam > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message You shouldn't make a hash of aliases, use the command 'newaliases', the rest seems fine, and should work. Try running 'newaliases', and completely recycling sendmail. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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