Upgrading Network.

[kanderson]

I'm Upgrading my network, which will include a significant change to the Scalix layout.

I know I can use the mailertable to readdress email, but can I do it on a user by user basis (so I can test it for myself without risking any user's email.

I'd like to create a new email address on the new server, test@here.com which does not exist on the old server. But inbound messages will go to the old server (into sendmail, as I've moves Scalix to 587 to allow me to run Spamassassin). Can I add an entry to the mailertable as below which will redirect the email for this ONE USER ONLY (rather than the whole domain), so I can test the new server?

test@here.com smtp:[10.10.10.10]

So that if an email comes in to joe@here.com it is processed normally, but that if the inbound email is addressed to test@here.com, it will be routed to the new server found at 10.10.10.10? I know this works with Postfix's transport file, but I'm not too sure about sendmail, and I'm especially not sure that mailertable is where it belongs.

I'd be very grateful for any tips or advice on how to accomplish this.

Thanks.
Ke.v

[ScalixSupport]

Hi Kevin,

I think what you want to do is add an entry to your /etc/mail/virtusertable rather than the mailertable. The entry should look something like:

test@here.com test@10.10.10.10

or you can use the actual fqdn for 10.10.10.10 instead. One thing to keep in mind, if you do use the IP address, you'll need to add10.10.10.10 to your /etc/mail/local-host-names on your new server, otherwise you'll receive a system config error. Also don't forget to restart sendmail after making these changes so the db files will get rebuilt.

Thanks,
Rachel