Doug-- Did you run a "make" in the /etc/mail directory before restarting Sendmail? I forgot to mention that those plaintext databases need to be hashed with a "make" and Sendmail restarted for them to take affect. I bet when the box reboots, it rehashes everything. No, in the strictest sense the virtusertable is not needed, but if you have multiple users that may want the same email address you may run into problems. Not using the virtusertable assumes all names to the left of the @ are unique and mark at domain1 and mark at domain2 is not 'easily' possible. Virtusertable allows you to create a mapping of mark at domain1 to 1 system account such as mark.domain1 and mark at domain2 to mark.domain2; thus making them distinct. With a handful of domains, it probably isn't a big deal, but often small servers have a tendency of growing! Does that help? MK Mark J. Kroska Director of Web Services KDV Technology and Consulting Services, Inc. Direct 320-258-6412 Main 320-252-7060 Fax 320-252-9627 mkroska at kdv.com "NOTICE: This E-mail (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it. Thank you." ________________________________ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org on behalf of Doug Coats Sent: Wed 10/27/2004 10:17 AM To: 'TCLUG Mailing List' Subject: RE: [TCLUG] Sendmail with multiple domains Mark, Thanks for the input. I tried following the virtual-hosting.html that you suggested before contacting the list to no avail. The tried multiple configurations and many stopping and starting Sendmail with the same results. To make a long story short I finally restarted my server out of frustration and now it works. I am happy that it now works but wonder what things were actually necessary for it to work. I guess I will remove all the changes and document the results of adding each one back into the mix (probably I will just let it work until it breaks and think about it then) Anyway, I was wondering do I really need a virtusertable? I my situation the users are only active under one domain and none are relayed off the machine to another mail account. Does it still apply to what I am doing? Thanks again for your help, Doug -----Original Message----- From: Mark J. Kroska [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Mark J. Kroska Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:15 AM To: dcoats at heritagemail.org; TCLUG Mailing List Subject: RE: [TCLUG] Sendmail with multiple domains Doug-- Entries need to be made in these files for multiple-domains with Sendmail: (on a RedHat machine, YMMV) /etc/mail/local-host-names [just the domain name here, one per line] /etc/mail/access [if you need to "relay" or "deny" mail to and from the server, domain name 'tab' RELAY or DENY) /etc/mail/virtusertable [this contains a mapping of email addresses to local or remote accounts, i.e.:] email at host1.com <mailto:email at host1.com> 'tab' localaccount email at host2.com <mailto:email at host2.com> 'tab' forwaded at yahoo.com <mailto:forwaded at yahoo.com> More information available here: http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html <http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html> Regards, Mark Mark J. Kroska Director of Web Services KDV Technology and Consulting Services, Inc. Direct 320-258-6412 Main 320-252-7060 Fax 320-252-9627 mkroska at kdv.com <mailto:mkroska at kdv.com> "NOTICE: This E-mail (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it. Thank you." ________________________________ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org on behalf of Doug Coats Sent: Tue 10/26/2004 10:01 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [TCLUG] Sendmail with multiple domains Can someone please a few moments of your time and help resolve a problem for me. I am trying to get Sendmail to work with multiple domains. 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