redirecting all mail from domain1.com to domain2.com

[Pottypotsworth]

Hi guys i have a slight problem.

I need to direct all mail from one domain to another but i need to retain the user (so the part before the @).

So if someone mails support@domain1.com it needs to be directed to support@domain2.com, or if someone mails advice@domain1.com it needs to goto advice@domain2.com etc etc.

I cracked open virtusetable and put
@domain1.com @domain2.com

I rehashed virtusetable.db and restarted sendmail but it doesn't work. I get a "to many hops" e-mail returned to my e-mail adress which i sent the e-mail from.

if i do @domain1.com bob@domain2.com it works fine, but obviously that doesnt help due to the fact that all mail to domain1.com will only goto bob@domain2.com

I dont know wether it makes any difference but domain2.com is on MDEAMON because the user uses exchange.

I hope this makes sense.

Dean

 

[RhythmAce]

In your example you have:

@domain1.com @domain2.com

Try it without the @ in front of domain2.com

 

[Pottypotsworth]

I haven't tried it yet, as i have not had time to access the server. But out of interest, what makes you think that will work? Won't sendamail think that domnain2.com is a user?

Just wondering thats all!

 

[Pottypotsworth]

I tried your idea RhythmAce, but what it did was strip the username out, so the e-mail got redirected simply to @domain2.com so the domain2.com server just bounced it back saying (and rightly so) that there was no username!

 

[fluid11]

Try this...

@domain1.com %1@domain2.com

The username part of the input address is passed in the %1 variable, so that %1 in the outbound address is replaced by the username from the input address.


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[Pottypotsworth]

O.k i'm still getting permenate delivery failures!

It seems like sendmail is managing to convert the name because i sent to user1@domain1.com which should translate to user1@domain2.com and it has done, but when it gets sent from the sendmail server to the mdeamon server, it seems that the address is just @domain2.com so its bouncing it back

here is a snippet of the message!

Return-path: <me@myserver.com>
Received: from me ([100.100.100.100])
by my server ([100.100.100.100])
with SMTP (MDaemon.PRO.v6.0.4.R)
for <user1@domain2.com>; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 11:49:22 +0100
Reply-To: <me@myserver.com>
From: &quot;ME&quot;
To: <user1@domain2.com>
Subject: %1@ test
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:40:08 +0100
Message-ID: <000801c23dfe$cce914d0$1001a8c0@chewie>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=&quot;iso-8859-1&quot;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Importance: Normal
X-MDRcpt-To: user1@domain2.com
X-MDRemoteIP: 100.100.100.100
X-Return-Path: me@myserver.com
X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: @domain2.com

The interesting thing, is that it HAS changed user1@domain1.comn to user1@domain2.com but it just doesnt get sent, it says...

YOUR MESSAGE WAS NOT DELIVERED!
Failed address: @domain2.com


Any ideas?