[ale] sendmail multiple virtual hosts

[michael d. ivey]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:14:46PM -0500, rob hoppe wrote:
> I have set up four hosts on my box.  I need to set up e-mail forwarding
> for the new virtual hosts.  I am administering sendmail with webmin,
> because it is simple.  It won't let me set up a new forward?

CAVEAT: I never use webmin.  It may do things differently.

Does sendmail accept mail for the domain?
    Check /etc/mail/local_host_names (on Debian) or whatever file is
    defined with the Fw macro in the sendmail.cf (sometimes
    sendmail.cw) ... is the virtual host in there?

Are the virtusertable entries there?
    Check /etc/mail/virtusertable (on Debian) or whatever file is
    defined with the Kvirtuser macro in sendmail.cf (usually called
    virtusertable) ... are the forwarding rules in there?

Run: sendmail -bv virtuser at virthost.com and send us the output.  This
    may require root, depending on your config. (It requires trusted
    user access)

Also ... is sendmail configured to do virtual hosting?  Check
sendmail.cf for some arcane rules with VirtHost in them.  If they
aren't there, that's something to look at.

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