sendmail makes my head spin :-)

[j.natowitz-KealBaEQdz4 at public.gmane.org]

Hi Daniel,

That was exactly what I needed.  Thank you very much.

Jerry

---- Original message ----
>Date: 25 Jan 2011 10:20:22 -0500
>From: Daniel Hagerty <hag-MhwEwdFzMDlg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>  
>Subject: Re: sendmail makes my head spin :-)  
>To: <j.natowitz-KealBaEQdz4 at public.gmane.org>
>Cc: Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
>
><j.natowitz-KealBaEQdz4 at public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> But for particular situations, mail needs to be sent to a particular
>> user on a particular Unix system.  None of these systems are in the
>> corporate DNS, and that will not change.  They all are in the NIS
>> hosts DB.  Is there a way, using either sendmail or postfix, to say
>> that email of the form user at system should NOT be sent to
>> corpmail.foo.com, but directly to "system"?  I'd prefer to continue
>> using sendmail, unless there is a compelling reason to go to
>> postfix.
>
>    While my memory of sendmail has long since been garbage collected,
>it's likely that sendmail calls this a "mailertable".  Search for it
>in the current configuration docs.
>
>
>    Postfix will happily do stuff like by way of a transport table.
>You have something like:
>
>transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
>
>in postfix's main.cf, and then the transport map contains entries
>like:
>
>unixbox.example.com		smtp:[destination.example.com]
>
>See the manpage transport(5) for the precise details of the table
>format.