Dear managers,
Sorry for the not-so-clear subject line, I didn't know how to distinguish
this from the usual sendmail-relay questions.
Here's the situation:
We have a big site (just less than 20,000 users). Some of our users are on
a DU4 machine, the rest on Novell.
Our email MX points to the DU machine. Emails are initially delivered
there. The emails are to be delivered locally if a local user is found.
Any email addressed to locally-unknown user is to be forwarded to the
Novell server. We acheived this by running Sendmail 8.8.5 and the
following in sendmail.cf:
# place to which unknown users should be forwarded
Kuser user -m -a<>
DLnovell.server.address..edu.au.
Here's the problem:
I recently upgraded sendmail to 8.9.1. Using version 8.9.1 of sendmail.cf,
the above forwarding rule is ignored all together. That means that emails
addressed to the users on the Novell server get delivered to the Unix
machine, and get bounced back with `unknown user' error.
If I run sendmail 8.9.1, and use version 8.8.5 of sendmail.cf everything
works perfectly; except that I use anti-spam features of the new sendmail
(as there is no corresponding command in the old sendmail.cf). This,
obviously, defeats the whole purpose of upgarding to 8.9.1 :-(
Any help is urgently needed and greatly appreciated (as some spammers are
using our system as we speak; and I, on the other hand, cannot afford to
shut the sendmail down).
regards,
Hossein
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Received on Mon Nov 23 1998 - 14:43:09 NZDT