Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:45:08 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: Alexandre Vieira <nullpt@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail help needed Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.2.20050728153729.156ff2d0@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <755cb9fc05072815171ac8003@mail.gmail.com> References: <755cb9fc05072815171ac8003@mail.gmail.com>
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At 03:17 PM 7/28/2005, Alexandre Vieira wrote: >Hello folks, > >I'm trying to get past a standard in sendmail which is very simple. > >I have several machines reporting mails trough local MTA's (sendmail) >in each one of the boxes to our main mailserver. The thing is, I did >not developed the scripts and they are using "mailx -s <subj> user" >which normally would try to deliver it to a local account in the >machine. So the question is: Can I, in any way, define that every >"user" passed on the mailx in every script gets resolved to >user@somedomain.tld and not to a local system account? We have >hundreds of "names" in the scripts, so aliasing doesn't work for me. If you don't _ever_ want things to be delivered locally, you can create what sendmail calls a null client. That will send all mail to the address you specify. You can get more details from /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README -Glenn >My current hack is defining DR and DS in the sendmail.cf to a static >hostname but that takes redundancy to our mail system since if the >main mailserver is down the backup mail server (higher MX) won't take >any effect. > >Any help apreciated >Cheers >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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