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From: Paul Dekkers <psd@worldaccess.nl>
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To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>
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Hi

You'd better set up a 'virtusertable', e.g.:
paul@domain.org		paul@otherhost.org
postmaster@domain.org	paul@otherhost.org
@domain.org		someone@otherhost.org
make it with 'makemap hash virtusertable < virtusertable' and set up your
config.mc with 'FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl'
it works great for me, and;
if you want to send mail to more than one user:
list@domain.org		list-domain@localhost
and in the aliases file:
list-domain:	person1, person2
works ok here again ;-)

Paul

On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Brian J. McGovern wrote:

>Almost two years ago, someone on this list gave me some mail rules so that I
>could alias some of the virtual domains that I have. The rules are in the
>S98 section (sendmail.cf), and read like:
>
>
>R$* < @domain.com.> $*	$: $(maferrets $1 $:$1<@domain.com.> $) $2
>R$* < @domain.com.> $*	$#error $: "User Unknown"
>
>I also have a line further up that looks like:
>
>Kdomain hash /etc/aliases.domain.org
>
>Within the aliases.domain.org file, I have lines that look like:
>
>original_user	new_user<@foo.bar.com.>
>next_user	next_user<@foo.bar.com.>
>
>Unfortunately, some of the aliases I want to now deliver to multiple end-users.
>But, when I do:
>
>agroup		user1<@foo.bar.com.>, user2<@foo.bar.com.>
>
>It doesn't work. Looking at the ruleset, I understand why, as the second and
>subsequent addresses get tokenized as $*. 
>
>I guess my question is, with the new versions of sendmail and the like, whether
>there is a similar, BETTER WAY (tm).
>
>If someone can give me a quick answer, or point me to a document, I'd be
>greatful. Just realize, I'm not a sendmail wizard, so be prepared to talk
>down to me.
>	-Brian
>

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