[Cialug] Sendmail question

[James Shoemaker]

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Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> I have two mail servers, one of which is in production, the other of 
> which will become the first's replacement. The servers do spam 
> filtering (before passing mail off to the "real" mailserver that the 
> clients actually log in to). Sendmail 8.13.x is the MTA that handles 
> mail as it comes in on both servers. My question is, is there a way to 
> tell sendmail on the old server to direct e-mail for a specific address 
> to the new server?
> 
> For example, i want all e-mail for daniel.ramaley at drake.edu to be 
> processed on the new server, while other e-mail continues to be 
> processed by the old server. As you may have guessed, i want to do this 
> so that i can test the new server with just one account and make sure 
> it is working correctly before letting it handle the entire flood of 
> mail.

	Rather than that why not set up a local DNS on another machine and have
the MX record for drake.edu point at the new server, that way you could
test ANY address.  Or just add an entry in your alias file like:
daniel.ramaley: daniel.ramaley at new_server_address.  Or just telnet to
the proper port on the new email server and sent it manually.  Or set
the new machine as the smtp server in your email client and sent out
test messages.  Lots of ways to test email servers.

James
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