Aliases on sendmail

[mastercc119]

Hello guys

I want to setup with sendmail 8.12.9, a system of aliasing such that:

if one sends an email to say 123xxxxx@mydomain.com it will be forwarded to central@mydomain.com.

eg. 1234567@mydomain.com goes into central@maydomain.com
1235555@mydomain.com goes into central@maydomain.com
etc.

Can /etc/mail/aliases file accept wildcards?

regards
Chris

Anything is possible

 

[RhythmAce]

You would be better off using virtusertable. It is a lot like aliases but lets you use wild cards in a sense. Each line has 2 fields. The first can be an address or a domain. The second can be an address, domain or Return error. here are a few examples:

webmaster@yourdomain.com joe
sales@yourdomain.com jane@her-isp.net
@yourdomain.com fred

In the above example, The first one would go to a user named joe on your system. The second goes to janes isp account and note the bottom line. Anything not covered goes to fred.

 

[mastercc119]

ok, sisnce my system would be for hundreds of thousands of users, is there a way I can say all email starting with 123*****@mydomain.com go to central@mydomain.com