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reroute user email?
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You could user the virtusertable to do this. Just enter a line similar to this:
user@old-address.com sameuser@new-address.com
If you do not have one already, it is a simple text file. However, you will need to build the database file that sendmail uses. To do this, just execute the following command:
makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable.db < /etc/mail/virtusertable
You may have to change the path to whatever your system uses.
user@old-address.com sameuser@new-address.com
If you do not have one already, it is a simple text file. However, you will need to build the database file that sendmail uses. To do this, just execute the following command:
makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable.db < /etc/mail/virtusertable
You may have to change the path to whatever your system uses.
I should also mention that if you nolonger want this user to be able to login to your system, you can change his shell to /sbin/nologin. This is the norm for mail only users who need no login to the system. You can also give these users /dev/null as their home directory so it doesn't take up space on your server.
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