Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
i have been a postfix user for several years and have decided i should learn to use sendmail. making a very basic setup that has 1 virtual mailbox (i.e. a mailbox for a user that does not have shell account on the mailserver) is giving me grief and i have not been able to fix this issue after reading all the docs i could find. i fully expect the answer is that i missed something trivial.
I think you need to have a local user to deliver to if you use this approach or sendmail would not know where to deliver. We create an account (with no ssh access etc) for each mail account.
If not, how is the user supposed to access his/her mail if there is no account?
here is what i have tried: - make sendmail listen on all interfaces by removing the -C/etc/mail/localhost.cf from the rc.conf.local entry for starting sendmail; done by pkill -x sendmail and restarting w/ appropriate options - add the domain for which i want to accept mail to /etc/mail/local-host-names like so my-domain.net and issue pkill -HUP sendmail - add the same line to /etc/mail/relay-domains and pkill -HUP sendmail
Not needed.
- add a line to /etc/mail/virtusertable like so [EMAIL PROTECTED] my-domain-phantom and issue makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable < /etc/mail/virtusertable at this point i would expect that i could send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have it delivered. the sendmail logs dictate otherwise:
Seems fine except you'd need the 'my-domain-phantom' user account. I suppose you could write some wrapper and pipe the emails to it, but if you wish to keep it simple, I don't think that's the best idea.
/Alexander
