Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:21:53 +0000 From: Mark Robinson Message-ID: <161873330703.20001126172153@reason-technology.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] sendmail aliases & virtusertable Hello Joachim, Sunday, 26 November 2000, you wrote: JS> Hi there, JS> we had some problems with virtusertable and sendmail, so we would like JS> to change to simpe aliases. JS> But we still want to direct all missadressed mail (e.g. typing errors) JS> to a special user, e.g. our secretary. JS> So if someone mails to mrpresident@whitehouse.com but we use only JS> mr.president@whitehouse.com, this mail should go to JS> monica@whitehouse.com. JS> This was fine with virtusertable, but if we now add something like JS> "@whitehouse.com monica@whitehouse.com" as only entry in JS> virtusertable, all mail is going to Moni, if there's a user in aliases JS> for it or not. And if we put in aliases, SuSEconfig is complaining. JS> Any simple solution? Playing with creating a sendmail.conf from linux.mc manually the following lines appeared in sendmail.cf. # place to which unknown users should be forwarded Kuser user -m -a<> DLlocal:postmaster You should just be able to replace postmaster with the user you want to receive the mail... HTH Mark