[KLUG Members] Question about sendmail catchall virtusertable.

John Bridleman members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:29:28 -0400


* Adam Bultman (adamb@glaven.org) wrote:
> 
> Okay, questions on sendmail.  I've heard ( and possibly read on this list
> before) about sendmail's virtual users.  At work, and at home, I have
> virtual users set up.  Allegedly, you can put, for a given host, this:
> 
> @mydomain.com <user>
> 

Yep, only I do
  @mydomain	user

> Is this default behavior?  I thought it was suppsed to be delivered to the
> user?  Or is this jsut some kind of bit-bucket alias?

It should put all mail for that domain that doesn't correspond to an existing entry to "user"

After you make any changes to the /etc/mail/virtusertable make sure you run 'make' to update the database.

See - http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html
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John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org