Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 13:19:27 -0600 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "Doug Young" <young@richardson.apana.org.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Sendmail Configuration Message-ID: <074001bf71a0$40d88160$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <021301bf6f8c$85f51800$827e03cb@ORACLE>
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> I'm trying to configure sendmail and would appreciate advice on a > number > > of issues > > Firstly, "sendmail.cw" & "relay-domains" > > To quote from one of your earlier messages "sendmail.cw is where > > you list domain name that you want sendmail to accept mail for (as > > being for that local machine)." > > so since I want bryden to accept mail for all my LAN machines I Nope, just the names of the server (virtual names), if you are hosting several domains, and you want your server to receive mail as: user@domain.com or user@anotherdomain.com or user@diferentdomain.com and dont forget to create an MX record of this domain in your DNS server pointing to this server. > I made up a "relay-domains" file by copying the "sendmail.cw" file > > to "relay-domains" If your servers are all in the same subnet, you can do it with just 1 line, like this: 10.10 asuming your server are in the 10.10.x.x subnet. > Secondly, I tried running the following as per your suggestions a > > while back > > makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable < /etc/mail/virtusertable Its supposed that you have already a file called /etc/mail/virtusertable with maps in there like: webmaster@domain.com john webmaster@otherdomain.com mike And you have included the line: FEATURE(`virtusertable', `hash /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl in your sendmail.mc config file, & rebuild the sendmail.cf file from there. > makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access Its supposed that you have already a file called /etc/mail/access with lines in there like: popsite.net REJECT 1-500-fingers.com REJECT 1-host.com DISCARD bill@microsoft.com REJECT And you have included the line: FEATURE(access_db) in your sendmail.mc config file, & rebuild the sendmail.cf file from there. > Looked back in "/etc/mail" and now there is a new file, > "virtusertable.db", > > but it only contains a line of garbage Its not garbage, its a hased file (compiled in a hash tree for faster info lookups, instead of parsing the text file). > What haven't I done right ??? P.S. Dont forget to restart the sendmail process after this changes, look at www.sendmail.org for several config options. Have Fun... Ales To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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