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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:45:08 -0700
To: Alexandre Vieira <nullpt@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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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
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