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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:37:40 -0400
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To: Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com>
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Subject: Re: sendmail and aliases/virtusertable/genericstable
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Sam Carleton wrote:
> 
> In the process of trying to map a username into something else as the
> email comes and goes from sendmail, I have locked up sendmail.  Right
> now when I try to send mail through pine, pine freezes at the send.
> This is what I have done:
> 
> Ok, I have the following lines in my sendmail.cf:
> 
>  # Generics table (mapping outgoing addresses)
>  Kgenerics hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable
> 
>  # Virtual user table (maps incoming users)
>  Kvirtuser hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable
> 
>  and I created one source file for Generics table that will convert
> email from sam to scarleton, it looks like this:
> 
>  sam scarleton@domain.com
> 
> and then a source file for Virtual user table as to map
> scarleton@domain.com back to sam:
> 
>  scarleton@domain.com sam
> 
> I have also modified the alias file.  Then I used makemap in this
> fashion to create /etc/mail/genericstable.db,
> /etc/mail/virtusertable.db, and /etc/alias.db
> 
>  makemap hash genericstable  < gsourcefile
>  makemap hash virtusertable  < vsourcefile
>  makemap hash aliases  < aliases
> 
> I first had done only the genericstable and virtusertable.  The outgoing
> 
> email name was NOT being traslated for me:(  After changing alias and
> running makemap on it, that is when pine started freezing when trying to
> 
> send mail.  Should I be using makemap to create the files or is there
> another program I should be using for the default config on FreeBSD
> 4.0-STABLE?
> 
> Sam
> 
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You shouldn't make a hash of aliases, use the command 'newaliases', the
rest seems fine, and should work. Try running 'newaliases', and
completely recycling sendmail.

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