10-28-2011
Sendmail virtual domain problem
For a long time we have successfully been running mail servers using sendmail+ClamAV+clamav-milter+SpamAssassin+smf_spamd-milter on Solaris both as a mail server for several domains with local users getting their mail using POP and IMAP and also as a message filtering relay for other domains where after spam/anti-virus filtering, mail is forwarded on to specific email addresses using the virtual users features of sendmail.
Now I want to use this to filter email for 4 domains whose email ends up on the same destination server which is running qmail+vpopmail and has virtual email addresses (there are no real users with login accounts on this server). What is the best way to configure my virtusers table to forward all mail for these 4 domains to the destination server? Supposing one domain is called 'catbowls.com' and another is called 'catbiscuits.com' while the destination server is called 'mail.catbowls.com', can I do something like this:
@catbiscuits.com mail.catbowls.com
@catbowls.com mail.catbowls.com
or should I put:
@catbiscuits.com %1@mail.catbowls.com
@catbowls.com %1@mail.catbowls.com
My attempts do far have resulted in 'unknown user' or 'no mailbox of that name' error messages from the destination server. I don't think this is due to a qmail config issue on the destination server as all 4 domains are currently using Google Postini to filter their email prior to it being forwarded to mail.catbowls.com and this is working. So it looks like there is something wrong with my virtual users table.
Any suggestions gratefully received,
Andy
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
sm-archive
SM-ARCHIVE(1) SM-ARCHIVE(1)
NAME
sm-archive - a sendmail milter to add recipients to messages
SYNOPSIS
sm-archive [-c] [-d n] [-p sendmail-socket] [-t timeout]
OPTIONS
-c Load the configuration file, print a cannonical form of the configuration on stdout, and exit.
-d n Set the debug level to n.
-p sendmail-socket
Set the socket used for the milter connection to sendmail. This is either "inet:port@ip-address" or "local:local-domain-sock-
et-file-name".
-t timeout
Set the timeout in seconds used for communication with sendmail.
USAGE
sm-archive -c
sm-archive -d 10 -p local:sm-archive.sock
INSTALLATION
This is now a standard GNU autoconf/automake installation, so the normal "./configure; make; su; make install" works. "make chkconfig" will
setup the init.d runlevel scripts. Alternatively, you can use the source or binary RPMs at http://www.five-ten-sg.com/sm-archive/packages:
http://www.five-ten-sg.com/sm-archive/packages.
Note that this has ONLY been tested on Linux, specifically RedHat Linux. You will need at a minimum a C++ compiler with a minimally thread
safe STL implementation. The distribution includes a test.cpp program. If it fails this milter won't work. If it passes, this milter might
work.
Modify your sendmail.mc by adding the following line in your sendmail.mc and rebuild the .cf file
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`sm-archive', `S=local:/var/run/sm-archive/sm-archive.sock, F=T, T=C:30s;S:5m;R:5m;E:5m')
Modify the default sm-archive.conf(5) configuration.
CONFIGURATION
The configuration file is documented in sm-archive.conf(5). Any change to the config file, or any file included from that config file, will
cause it to be reloaded within three minutes.
INTRODUCTION
Consider the problem of archiving all the mail sent to or from particular email addresses or domains. This milter allows you to configure
archive mailboxes for each address or domain. It will add the address of the archive mailbox to messages that pass thru this milter.
The archive milter reads a text configuration file (sm-archive.conf) on startup, and whenever the config file (or any of the referenced in-
clude files) is changed. The entire configuration file is case insensitive. If the configuration cannot be loaded due to a syntax error,
the milter will log the error and quit. If the configuration cannot be reloaded after being modified, the milter will log the error and
send an email to root from sm-archive@$hostname. You probably want to added sm-archive@$hostname to your /etc/mail/virtusertable since oth-
erwise sendmail will reject that message.
TODO
Placeholder for future ideas.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007 by 510 Software Group <carl@five-ten-sg.com>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, please write to
the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
VERSION
1.7
2008-03-21 SM-ARCHIVE(1)