On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, rado wrote: > kk I got rid of that other masquerade feature... > I did add a feature `generictable' line ....by the book...tried to > add a file w/ a user username at otherdomain called it idealusers then > the book said to run makemap hash /etc/mail/idealusers (in my case) > > and I never could get the prompt to come back...like it was hung makemap expects to receive something via standard input (stdin); the proper invocation (and the one I included on my howto page) would be makemap hash /etc/mail/idealusers < /etc/mail/idealusers You'll end up with a file /etc/mail/idealusers.db. If you've configured sendmail properly, there also ought to be line in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf that points to your file: Kgenerics hash /etc/mail/idealusers -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com