DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) (10/10/89)
We are currently trying to configure our mail hosts, and we are running into some problems with the configuration. my department mailhost is a sun3/160, running 4.0.3. It is tied to our school's main mail host via uucp and it handles all incoming and outgoing mail for our school. The main mailhost is sjsumcs.sjsu.edu. Question #1: now, the local mail host (sun 3/160), called sjsuee.ee.sjsu.edu, can send and receive outside mail just fine via our school-wide mail host. The problem is that another department in our school has a connection to my local mail host but does not have a connection to our school's main mail host; and that machine - plus other unix machines in that department - would like to receive its email from my local host. That machine (vax4.ecs.sjsu.edu) is on the same ether as my local mail host. How do I set up the rule sets and rewriting rules on my local mail host so that my local host can pass messages addressed to user@vax4.ecs.sjsu.edu (which it has received from our school's main mail host sjsumcs.sjsu.edu) to just user@vax4? Currently, in test mode, I can see that my local host's sendmail will parse messages addressed to user@vax4 correctly - sending the message to vax4 via ethernet mailer. However when I tell it to parse user@vax4.ecs.sjsu.edu, my local sendmail kicks the message upstairs - to our school's main mail host, which is not what I want it to do. I want it to parse the address so that it will become user@vax4 at the end. Question #2: On the same vein - how do I configure my sendmail.cf so that it will kick everything addressed to xxxxx.ecs.sjsu.edu to vax4 and let vax4 figure out the rest fo the stuff? (vax4 and sjsuee have ether links, not uucp links, so smail wont help, I assume). Your help would be much appreciated... please reply by e-mail. Thanks! Bruce deadhead@cup.portal.com bmo@sjsuee.ee.sjsu.edu