RE: Sendmail Question - VERY URGENT

[John F. Blyberg]

This is a pretty hokey way of doing what you want to do.. Just setup your usa sendmail server as a sendmail hub, have it forward emails that need to go to india to the sendmail server in india.  Also get 8.9 or 8.10.. I would suggest 8.10.  It'll take you 20 mins to compile/install and you'll have all the additional features.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of K.Deepak
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 5:38 AM
To: Linux Admin List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sendmail Question - VERY URGENT

Hi all,

            I have setup a mail-server at my office. I am using RedHat Linux 5.2 for my mail-server with the sendmail version -
sendmail-8.8.7-20. Now let me tell you as to how i get mails meant for my office. I have setup this mail-server in india. and my main mail-server is in the USA. let me call this server as usa-mailserver.  This usa-mailserver recieves all the mails meant for my office from the internet. Now as soon as it recieves it puts all the mails in a single folder. Now , i have setup a fetchmail in my india mail-server to fetch mails from this folder.

Everthing is working fine with this setup. Even i am able to recieve the mails from my usa server and i am able to distribute it locally. even my users in india are able to send mails outside

BUT THE PROBLEM IS WHENEVER MY SENDMAIL GETS  A UNKOWN ID IT CAN'T DISTRIBUTE THE  ( i.e,  WHEN SOMEBODY SENDS MAILS TO AN ID WHICH DOESN'T EXIST, OR MISPELLED ID ETC.........)  MAIL LOCALLY. FOR THE ID DOESN'T EXISTS!!!!!!     AND HENCE MY FETCHMAIL TERMINATES .

MY QUESTION IS WHETHER THERE IS AN OPTION IN SENDMAIL WHERE I CAN SAY THAT IF THERE IS A MAIL WHOSE ID IS UNKOWN OR THE MAIL WHICH THE SENDMAIL CAN'T DISTRIBUTE , IT SHOULD PUT TO A JUNK FOLDER SAY [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ould anyone please help me out in this issue. I need to setup this asap as i am getting lot of mails whose email ID is mispelled.

eagerly waiting for reply....................
 

regards

K.Deepak
System Administrator
AdventNet Inc.