My machine has sendmail installed and working. What steps should I take to add a catchall account to use with Gossamer mail?

Hi!

This is pretty involved and varies depending on how sendmail is installed and your system configuration. Most ISP's provide this ability as part of mail service. Best to ask them.

Cheers,

Alex

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I'm running my own system, no ISP etc...

I can do it if you can point me to instructions for it...

It has to do with the alias file, the authorized users file, and such.

You might want to start on the sendmail.org site, then work your way out from there.

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I did it, here's how I did it in case anyone else needs it:
Edit /etc/mail/virtusertable:
xxx@mydomain.com xxx
aa@mydomain.com aa
@mydomain.com gossamermail

(let's say we have users xxx,a and we want the gossamermail account to catch the rest)

#cd /etc/mail
#make all

Edit /etc/sendmail.cw, add the line:
mydomain.com

Restart sendmail, and it should all be working.
(Note: This is for RH 6.2, with sendmail installed from the RH cd)

Thanks for posting what works!

That is _REALLY_ the biggest help of all for anyone else.

Thanks again.

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