Les Mikesell <l...@futuresource.com> wrote: > afo cliff wrote: >> Les, >> >> That's a great idea! I tried it but no matter what I do, sendmail is >> letting everything through. Virtusertable is configured correctly in >> sendmail.mc, also did the appropriate makemap. I think something has >> changed in sendmail (I have 8.13.8). I've searched the world over 10 >> times and tried many different combinations in virtusertable & >> mailertable and no matter what it relays everything. I know it is >> looking at the virtusertable because sendmail lets me know if I put an >> error in the file. The closest I can come is to use the access table >> in a similar fashion. That does work but I can't find a way NOT to >> send a reject message. That's one thing I don't want to do is to tie >> up my server sending 10,000 rejects to a zombie somewhere. If I use >> the DISCARD command, then it tosses the whole email and nobody gets >> it, even valid users. >> >> Is there some trick to making your suggestion work? > > In my case the MX server relaying in from the internet is not itself > the delivery host. It has the domains it receives for listed in > local-host-names and the actual delivery destination is mapped in > mailertable like: > domain.com esmtp:[host.domain.com] > > (the []'s let you go to a name with an A record or an IP instead of > the default MX lookup)
mailertable is *NOT* consulted for domains listed in list of local email domains ($=w, local-host-names). > Maybe you don't have the domain listed in local-host-names so sendmail > thinks it must relay. Virtual users and aliases are only checked for > the domains it process as local - but you can still relay for > delivery. virtusertable is consulted for local email domains ($=w) and (non local) domains listed in $={VirtHost}. Read carefully about side effects before using macros porviced by sendmail.org for filling $={VirtHost}. You can fill $={VirtHost} "directly": LOCAL_CONFIG C{VirtHost}example.net P.S. The topic has been discussed a few times plus in news:comp.mail.sendmail Search for the threads with _VIRTUSER_STOP_ONE_LEVEL_RECURSION_ [it marks one recipe but you will find references to other by the way] -- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : a...@onet.eu Sic transit discus mundi -- From the System Administrator's Guide, by Lars Wirzenius _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang