<OT> sendmail guru help needed

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

The only problem I see with that is that effectively EVERYONE's mail gets 
routed through the sendmail system.  Which will presumably be a cast-off 
box scrounged together for the test.  If it dies, then everyone's mail is 
killed--not good for the demo.

What about using fetchmail to pull the test users' mail from the regular 
mail server

At 10:17 AM 10/18/02 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>On Friday 18 October 2002 10:07 am, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> > This one has me stumped, hopefully one of you gurus can figure it out. Here
> > at work, we are trying to implement a sendmail test system to prove its
> > capabilities to mgmt. We are going to be allowed to have a small group of
> > specify email addresses be routed through the new sendmail box, while
> > everyone else's mail goes through the normal mail route. The problem is
> > that there is nothing in the email address itself to distinguish the
> > allowed email adrresses from the non-allowed. In other words, lets say we
> > have 100 different users at somecompany.com. These 100 people currently
> > receive mail through a machine I'll call 'maill. We're getting permission
> > to  change 25 of those 100 people to use our new email server, called
> > sendmail. We are not allowed to give these 25 people new email addresses
> > for this test, nor are we alowed to create a subdomain under
> > somecompany.com. How would you gurus configure sendmail to process the mail
> > for these 25 people and simply forward the mail for the other 75 people to
> > the existing mail server?
>
>How about using procmail to grep a list of names....   if the name is not
>found, the email gets forwarded to the other server.
>
>
>
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