Help with virtual domains - mail bouncing

[Matt Fearnow]

I need help with a virtual domain.  One of our sister companies site has 
been down for a while, and email is starting to bounce to their domain.

We were going to setup qmail to be able to at least hold their mail, until 
either 1) we were able to create the necessary alias's or 2) their site 
comes online.

I created entries in control/rcpthosts, and control/virtualdomains:

control/rcpthosts:
ourdomain.com
sisterdomain.com

control/virtualdomains:
ourdomain.com:ourdomain-com
sisterdomain.com:alias

But when I restart qmail, all mail for their domain starts bouncing because 
I dont have their alias's setup yet.  Is there a way around this?  Please help

Matt 

Help with virtual domains

[Isaiah Chua]

hi folks,

My qmail is currently running well for my company's email 
addresses. However, I need to setup some mailboxes that will cater for staff of 
our sister company, and I'm having problems with the virtual domains in 
qmail.

My company's domain is abc.com (for e.g.), and they have some 
users on our system, e.g. johndoe. Now johndoe should only send mail out as [EMAIL PROTECTED], and should receive mails at 
the same address. It should not be a local delivery as the mails for this domain 
are in fact forwarded from their HQ in Hongkong.

I've read up the docs for virtual hosts and it still doesn't 
seem to help. Changes I've made always point me back to error messages 
indicating no user exists or cannot accept domain.

What am I doing wrong?



Regards,

Isaiah Chua