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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Solaris sendmail not paying attention to virtusertable Post 303022435 by defaria on Friday 31st of August 2018 05:45:01 PM
Old 08-31-2018
Solaris sendmail not paying attention to virtusertable
I'm on Solaris 5.11 running sendmail. Local usernames are of the form <letters><numbers> (e.g. hn06511). In the past we used aliases to make point to <username>@olddomain.com.


Code:
<username> <username>@olddomain.com


Now there's a new email address scheme and a new domain. Now email addresses are of the form <firstname>.<lastname>@newdomain.com.


So I changed the aliases to be:


Code:
<username> <firstname>.<lastname>@newdomain.com


This works, however <username>@olddomain.com no longer works. To add insult to injury, there are many scripts with hardcoded email addresses to the old style.



So I want to change <username>@olddomain.com -> <firstname><lastname>@newdomain.com. I thought I could use virtusertables to accomplish this so I made a virtusertable that contains:


Code:
@olddomain.com %1


Supposedly that should take <anybody>@olddomain.com and route it to just the username (%1). I hoped that then the aliases I have defined would translate <username> -> <firstname>.<lastname>@newdomain.com. But as far as I can see sendmail is ignoring this virtusertable completely and attempting delivery to <username>@olddomain.com and, of course, failing.


AFAICT I formated the virtusertable properly and ran makemap (should I be using dbm or hash? I've seen both). AFAICT I have put in the proper FEATURE and done the make and made sure the generated sendmail.cf is in the proper place. I've seen FEATURE expressed as both


Code:
FEATURE(virtusertable',dbm -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')


and


Code:
FEATURE(virtusertable',hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')


But neither work.


What kind of debugging or other info can I provide and try?


Thanks in advance.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

praliases

praliases(1)							   User Commands						      praliases(1)

NAME

       praliases - display system mail aliases

SYNOPSIS

       praliases [-C configfile] [-f aliasfile] [key]

DESCRIPTION

       The  praliases  utility displays system mail aliases. When no key is given, praliases displays the current system aliases, one per line, in
       no particular order. The form is key:value. If a key is given, only that key is looked up and the appropriate  key:value  is  displayed	if
       found.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -C configfile   Specifies a sendmail configuration file.

       -f aliasfile    Reads the specified file aliasfile instead of the default sendmail system aliases file.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       key	       A specific alias key to look up.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful operation.

       >0	An error occurred.

FILES

       /etc/mail/aliases	       Default sendmail system aliases file

       /etc/mail/aliases.db	       Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file

       /etc/mail/aliases.dir	       Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file
       /etc/mail/aliases.pag

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf	       Default sendmail configuration file

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsndmu 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mailq(1), newaliases(1M), sendmail(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    29 Mar 2004 						      praliases(1)
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