A little birdy told me that Joseph L. Casale said:

] A long time ago someone helped me with setting up sendmail to simply queue ] and relay mail. They suggested: ] ] 1) edit /etc/sysconfig/sendmail and set ] "DAEMON=no" ] 2) edit /etc/mail/submit.mc and set ] FEATURE(`msp', `[IP.of.relayhost]')dnl ] ] Given the sendmail-cf RPM is already installed a "service sendmail ] restart" is enough to a light, direct submitting sendmail setup. ] ] How does one rewrite all mail to one specific address so it can be filtered ] by a user that receives all mail for this host? Can there be a rule in place ] with the above config? Hopefully that is just as easy in sendmail as it is ] postfix!

we have a special use system that does this... it's easy enough... especially if other accounts don't actually exist on the mail server... first we define:

define(`LUSER_RELAY', `local:root')dnl

in sendmail.mc before regenerating the .cf file... then, in /etc/aliases we also redefine "root" to the intended "end recipients":

root: <(list of comma-separated) user(s)>

the end result being that ALL incoming email goes to the account(s) listed in the root alias... and i think that's about it... but then again, that particular system is set up so that none of the other user accounts that we are expecting email from actually exist... i suppose you could simply "fix" that limitation by adding similar forwards in /etc/aliases for any other actual account such as:

<actual-local-user>: root

anyways... that seems a relatively simple solution... if anyone can see problems/caveats jump right in...

B. Karhan simon@pop.psu.edu PRI/SSRI Unix Administrator