Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:42:28 -0400 From: Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: sendmail and aliases/virtusertable/genericstable Message-ID: <3975E884.D61A31E7@miltonstreet.com> References: <3975AC5F.386062AE@miltonstreet.com> <3975AF24.ADA7CF8D@wmptl.com>
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Nathan Vidican wrote: > 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. > Thanks for the tip on newaliases, that worked for me:) The virtusertable works fine but the genericstable simply does not work. Any thoughts on what I should look into? Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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