Fw: Re: Virtual domains, user@domain.com: Mailbox unknown

[Andrzej Filip]

Andrzej Filip wrote:
> Mike O'Rourke wrote:
> 
>>> Christopher Paluch <cpaluch at mindspring.com> 02/20/04 11:14pm >>>
>>>
>>> After installing a version of Cyrus that actually supports Virtual
>>
>>
>> Domains (doh!) and getting the sendmail.mc
>>
>>> setup properly, it looks like I got it working. 
>>> I still would like to be able to get root mail accepted and sent to
>>
>>
>> the old fashioned /var/spool/mail files, but
>>
>>> still haven't figured that one out yet. I will keep on plugging away
>>
>>
>> at it.  I tried sending it to a Cyrus
>>
>>> account,which I was able to do, but I couldn't get the IMAP client
>>
>>
>> configured right to login and get the mail.
>>
>>> Thanks everyone for your help.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Congratulations!
>>
>> For sending mail to unix users, you might take a look at Andrzej's page
>> that he mentioned in a post yesterday:
>>
>> Andrzej [en:Andrew] Adam Filip:
>> "I promote a few alternative ways of cyrus and sendmail integration,
>> all of them use local mailer for some users and curys||cyrusv2 for other
>> [ e.g. http://anfi.webhop.net/sendmail/localtab.html ]"
>>
>> I had a look at it, and it looks slick. Although the examples seem to
>> presume that your default local mailer is "local" rather than "cyrusv2",
>> it might be able to be used in the reverse sense -- i.e. your default
>> local mailer is cyrusv2, and you put in the localtable something like:
>>
>> root        local:chris
>>
>> to send root's mail to your "chris" unix account.
>>
>> Andrzej, is this interpretation correct?
> 
> 
> It is perfectly OK.
> 
> Another option is to use LOCALized version of Cyrus Aliases
> http://anfi.webhop.net/sendmail/localNalias.htm

I have made a mistake (htm should be replaced by html)

http://anfi.webhop.net/sendmail/localNalias.html

[ A few persons have tried to access wrong (*.htm) URL. ]

> P.S.
> In bright future ahead sendmail 8.13 will use socketmap protocol 
> [protocol to query external programs] to ask cyrus about valid mailboxes 
> *during* smtp session [AFAIK socketmap support has been added to 
> development version of CYRUS (CVS)]
> 


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