Re: I'd like to be able to recieve mail, but not send it out (re: sendmail)

does the fact that I have a empty /etc/mail/domaintable have anything to do
with it?  What is the format for entries in this table?

Thanks,
Joel

Michael Schwager wrote:

> Joel,
> This would require debugging and finding out what ruleset is doing the 
> rejecting, why it's not delivering it locally, etc.
>
> What is happening is that after the mail address [email protected] 
> is going through all the rules, it still thinks it needs to send it 
> somewhere via smtp.  So there is a configuration problem that needs to 
> be addressed. The best way to do this is to get the sendmail book 
> ("Sendmail" 2nd Edition by O'Reilly & Associates) and learn page 474, 
> page 494, then debug with
> -d21.1 as shown on pages 852 and 888.  Those pages are where I live, 
> even after 5 years of Sendmail work.
>
> Ooo... actually, 3rd edition is out now.  Appropriate chapters are:  
> 28, Rules; 29, Rulesets, and 37, debugging with -d.  Not sure of those 
> page numbers in that edition.
>
> Also you might try posting to comp.mail.sendmail on Usenet.
>
> --On Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:03 AM -0800 Joel Thompson 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I tried what you suggested, and I guess I am still not being clear 
>> enough:
>>
>> The server is a mail server for various domains. For discussion, let say
>> it is a server for the domain: restaurants.com (even though it is not).
>>
>> Then when someone sends an email to [email protected] my sendmail
>> should pick up the mail and put in /var/spool/mail/john (john being the
>> unix account name, and as appropriately mapped from the
>> /etc/mail/virtusertable).
>>
>> John should then be able to pickup his mail via POP3.
>>
>> Now this server should only recieve mail for domains that it knows 
>> about,
>> and never send any mail to another machine (route,relay,no create
>> new..etc).
>
>
> -- 
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> software
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