On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 10:52:48PM +0200, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to be able to use separate alias/redirect
> files for different domains (like a .redirect in their home-dir), so I (as
> admin) don't have to keep updating the aliases, because someone wants an
> extra email-alias for his/her domain, but I can't find anything ;((
>
> Is it a 'standard' sendmail-config, or do i need an other package.
on my potato box,
man sendmail
shows
SYNOPSIS
exim [options] arguments ...
mailq [options] arguments ...
rmail [options] arguments ...
rsmtp [options] arguments ...
runq [options] arguments ...
sendmail [options] arguments ...
so these are all related.
in my /etc/exim.conf i've got
local_domains =
localhost:*dontUthink.com:partial-lsearch;/etc/exim/DOMAINS
and further down in the 'directors' section:
# check aliases for virtual hosts --
# virtual hostname-->alias file mapping is in /etc/exim/DOMAINS
# <alias>@<hostname>-->is in /etc/exim/<virtual> from DOMAINS
# and global default aliases '*: someone' is possible in each
# virtual host alias file, because we use 'search_type=lsearch*'
virtual_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
domains = "partial-lsearch;/etc/exim/DOMAINS"
file_transport = address_file
pipe_transport = address_pipe
file = /etc/exim/${domain_data}
search_type = "lsearch*"
now, the /etc/exim/DOMAINS file resembles this:
# *.domain.name /etc/exim/<aliasfile>
*.dontuthink.com: dontuthink
*.serensoft.com: serensoft
*.bucks2browse.com: bucks2browse
*.buckstobrowse.com: bucks2browse
any '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address is looked up in the
config file /etc/exim/dontuthink; any email to someone in
the '@buckstobrowse.com' or '@bucks2browse.com' domain
is directed to aliases in the /etc/exim/bucks2browse file.
for instance, /etc/exim/dontuthink could look like this:
puz: will
admin: will
kat*: kat
sales: rdt
*: will
so mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will go to user 'kat';
mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will go to user 'will'
(by default, thanks to the final '*' alias).
--
for your domain-per-user setup (as i gather from your
message) you can instead refer to individual user alias
files:
# /etc/exim.conf
virtual_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
domains = "partial-lsearch;/etc/exim/DOMAINS"
file_transport = address_file
pipe_transport = address_pipe
# here's the kicker: ###################
file = /home/${domain_data}/.mail_aliases
# or whatever you need for your setup###
search_type = "lsearch*"
cool, eh? (if one of your users doesn't have a matching
.mail_aliases file -- or has a corrupt one -- well, let's
just say you should test for that situation and see what
happens, and how to recover...)
--
things are more like they used to be than they are now.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/
