Re: sendmail- configuration on a firewall?

[Claus <cniesen@gmx.net>]

At 02:11 PM 03/01/2001, Sam Smith wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > I would like to have a system with these features:
> > - only one local user (not root!) receiving mail
> > - mail gateway for the internal network
> > - roots mail for the firewall goes to the admin.
> >
> > Has anyone some sample inputfiles for m4 ready? I did this some
> > times many years ago. Any hints for quick reentry into the
> > configuration of the system?
> >
> > does openbsd's sendmail make executing files by the .forward file
> > possible? I would need that feature.
>
>You can probably just do it with /etc/mail/aliases and not
>need to play with the configuration at all.

Yes, the .forward file works with OpenBDS's sendmail.  I would just add 
.forward file in the home directory of the user (or /root).  The default 
installation will forward the mail of that user to the email address 
contained in the .forward file, in case some one didn't knew that.

   Claus