Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:26:20 -0400 (EDT) From: William Melanson <wjm@gate.net> To: Chris Angell <chris62vw@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VirtualUserTable Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.21.0010031021010.514670-100000@tiwa.gate.net> In-Reply-To: <F162xaW1GA8rUa4nTNL000091dd@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Chris Angell wrote:
% Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 18:24:54 PDT
% From: Chris Angell <chris62vw@hotmail.com>
% To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
% Subject: VirtualUserTable
%
% I have a FreeBSD machine that is on the Internet acting as a mail and www
% server (among other things). I want to host multiple domains. The only
% problem I have is not knowing how to make the email work. When I used to
% work at a small ISP, there was a /etc/virtualusertable that was updated,
% then hashed (?) to make a database of users. So there would be entries like
% this:
%
% webmaster@somesite.com root
%
This is what I've done:
1. Within the directory /etc/mail create a file called "virtusrtable".
2. Within the virtusrtable file place the following:
webmaster@somesite.com root
What this says is that any mail which comes to webmaster@somesite.com will
directed to root's mailbox.
IMPORTANT: Within the virtualusertable file, field seperators must be the
tab key.
3. Using the makemap command we convert the virtualusertable file to a
database format:
% makemap hash /etc/mail/virusrtable < /etc/mail/virtusrtable
This will create a /etc/mail/virtualusertable.db file.
Everytime the virtualusertable file is modified you must once again
rebuild the virtualusertable database by running the makemap command
above. Upon completion of running makemap you should have the following
2 files:
virtualusertable
virtualusertable.db
4. Restart Sendmail:
Kill -HUP [sendmail PID]
5. Done...
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William Melanson - CyberGate/espire Network Operations Center
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