Default email address in sendmail?

[christoph at linuxsoup.com (Christoph Doerbeck)]

Could be done with a simple procmail rule if procmail is the develivery
mechanism...

what about the old .forward files?

-cfd

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 08:38 -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 08:18:27AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> writes:
> > 
> > > "It's for a friend..."
> > >
> > > Crusty old Solaris box running sendmail.  What he wants to do is
> > > redirect all mail that doesn't have a user, and send it on to one
> > > address, instead of rejecting it.
> > >
> > > How does he do it?
> > 
> > I would recommend against that.  For one thing, it'll get TONS of
> > spam.  For another, it breaks most sender-verification techniques.
> 
> 
> Yes, it does break verification.
> 
> He might not care about that given what he's trying to do.
> 
> David - /etc/aliases is all I can think, but that requires knowing what
> user names will be used.  IIRC aliases has no provision for regular
> expressions.
> 
> Otherwise, I'm sure that deep in the bowels of sendmail.cf there is a
> way to rewrite all incoming addresses "not to user X" to be sent to 
> "user Y".  However a very wise UNIX guru once said to me:
> 
> "sendmail.cf? Don't go there..."          :-)
> 
> > This message has been scanned for viruses by a peice of lint
> > and is believed to be free of any terrorist activity
> 
> (Does any believe or even read those stupid messages that could
> just as easily have been put in by malware?)
> 


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