System Admin: Setting up email routing with Sendmail

Setting up email routing with Sendmail

Quick Notes

When you're setting up Eventum's [Eventum:Email Routing Interface](Email Routing Interface "wikilink") for Sendmail, use these options in the Administration -> General Setup area:

Email Routing Interface: Enabled Recipient Type Flag: [doesn't matter, choose any] Email Address Prefix: eventum_issues+ Address Hostname: [the domain name of the email address issues should be sent to] Warn Users Whether They Can Send Emails to Issue: [doesn't matter, choose any]

In your /etc/mail/virtusertable, add the entry:

[email protected]       eventum_issues%3

(that's tab separated, not space separated, and the %3 on the end is there on purpose)

Then rebuild the virtual email users table with (as root):

# make -C /etc/mail

That directs all of the incoming emails for [email protected] to the email account called "eventum_issues" on the mail server, which you then need to setup Eventum to check occasionally.

Plussed Users

With modern versions of sendmail (and maybe with not-so modern versions), as long as the prefix used ends with «+» there is no need to put any entries into «/etc/mail/virtusertable» at all.

In addition, if you wish to use a prefix that does not directly match the actual mail account (e.g. «[email protected]» mapped to «[email protected]», this can be done with an entry in «/etc/mail/aliases» (or «/etc/aliases») like this:

issue+*:  otheraccount