RE: Virtual users in sendmail (and vacation/.forward support?)

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Paul Dlug

> I'm using sendmail with OpenLDAP integration to handle mail
> aliases and
> would like to support virtual user accounts (accounts are
> looked up in
> the LDAP server and mapped to a single local user with delivery via
> procmail). I'm not clear on how this is supposed to work,
> virtusertable
> seems to be designed to forward mail for a virtual host on to another
> system not deliver it locally. If anyone could provide some
> explanation
> or examples I would appreciate it.

The virtusertable is a feature specific to sendmail; this has nothing
particular to do with OpenLDAP. You should be asking this type of question on
a mailing list dedicated to sendmail support, not openldap-software.

To answer the question - the virtusertable can redirect to both remote
systems and  to local addresses. Read the cf/README file in the sendmail
distribution for examples of the table's usage.
>
> Also, is anyone aware of a mechanism for supporting vacation messages
> and basic forwarding from LDAP? I'd like to provide an
> interface for my
> users to set an away message or forward their mail. It would
> be easy to
> write a quick web app to do this but I need the support in
> the MTA for
> it.

I'm not aware of such a feature being built-in to sendmail. It may be there,
but again, this isn't the proper forum for the question.

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