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Date:      Mon, 7 Feb 2000 01:20:56 +1000
From:      "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
To:        <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SENDMAIL Configuration
Message-ID:  <022e01bf70b5$d1ebdb70$827e03cb@ORACLE>
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Thanks for the response Giorgos

I think I'm gradually getting this sendmail thing under control now
thanks
to all the assistance from the -questions list folk


----- Original Message -----
From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <charon@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Doug Young" <young@richardson.apana.org.au>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: SENDMAIL Configuration


> On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 02:00:36PM +1000, Doug Young wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to configure "sendmail 8.9.3" in FreeBSD3.2, and I'm a
> > bit confused about just how to do a few things. The FreeBSD box is
a
> > gateway for a LAN ... permanent dialup modem connection to the net
> [snip]
> >
> > Secondly, I tried running the following
> >
> > makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable < /etc/mail/virtusertable
access
> > makemap hash /etc/mail/< /etc/mail/access
> >
> > Got "No such file or directory", so I created a new empty file
> > "/etc/mail/virtusertable" ... and ran that first thing again .....
> >
> > this time I got a different response "/etc/mail/virtusertable.db:
line
> > 1: syntax error (leading space)"
>
> If you have no virtual domains on your machine, yet, you do not need
to
> run the first of those commands.  In the second command line I can
see
> a small error, since it should be:
>
> # makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access
>
> > I ran "man virtusertable" but that just said "No manual entry for
> > virtusertable"
>
> You won't find a manpage. for virtusertable.  You can find a lot of
the
> sendmail features documented in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README.
>
> > Looked back in "/etc/mail" and now there is a new file,
> > "virtusertable.db", but it only contains a line of garbage
>
> The .db files are hashes, that are created by makemap.  You don't
need
> to read anything from them, or write anything to them for that
matter.
> They are read by sendmail, and created by makemap.
>
> I suppose that you don't have any virtual domains, so virtusertable
is
> not necessary for your sendmail to work.  The access file is
documented
> in the .../sendmail/cf/README file mentioned above.  Look around
line
> 1300 for some examples of how it's used.
>
> --
> Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr >
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