local-host-names?

[martynh]

We have a simple requirement. We have Bugzilla configured to send email to our internet mail addresses, e.g. martyn.hodgson@mycompany.com. However at the moment we just want the server running Bugzilla to send these messages to the local user accounts, e.g. martyn@buzillaserver.lan without reference to the internet.

I thought that all I had to do was add an entry to the local-host-names saying:

mycompany.com

and an entry in /etc/aliases saying:

martyn.hodgson@bugzilla.lan: martyn

However, this doesn't work. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

Martyn Hodgson

 

[sedj]

I thought you had to edit /etc/mail/aliases and add a line :

martyn.hodgson: martyn

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html

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[martynh]

No, that doesn't work because martyn.hodgson is not a local user and I believe that /etc/aliases is only for local users.

I have also tried putting an entry in /etc/mail/virtusertable of:

martyn.hodgson@iipay.com martyn

This didn't work either!

 

[sedj]

That is the whole point of the aliases file - it maps names that are not actual users to actual users ...

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[sedj]

Don't forget to run /usr/bin/newaliases after aswell

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[martynh]

For posterity:

We (or rather a colleague) solved our problem. It required entries in local-host-names for the various domains and an entry in virtusertable for each user.