Hey all,

I recently downgraded a box to a "shell" server, and since my mail
delivery happens to the homedir, I decided to simply set up an alias in
the default system that points like this:

local-host-names: oldprime.gushi.org

virtusertable: @oldprime.gushi.org %1@prime.gushi.org

The hostname of the machine is oldprime.gushi.org

However, for whatever reason whenever I try to send to a user in the
NIS maps, it gets bounced (even though NIS should not (as far as I
figure) be checked by this recipe, as it's expected to deliver offsite,
so why would it be checking local users?)

Jan 18 02:39:09 <mail.notice> oldprime sm-mta[12460]: l0I7d9Ci012460:
<testcase@oldprime.gushi.org>... User unknown
Jan 18 02:39:09 <mail.info> oldprime sendmail[12459]: l0I7d9D3012459:
to=The Test Case <testcase@oldprime.gushi.org>, ctladdr=danm
(1001/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30587,
relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown

On doing some more research I've seen a lot of talk of NSS. This is
FreeBSD 4. There is not to my knowledge an NSSwitch option.

Sendmail IS compiled with -DNIS. I am able to use all the standard
system calling tools to look up my users (like finger, id, etc) that
are being imported via NSS.

In searching, I find a lot of mention of alias maps in NSS. I don't
want alias maps, I just want to take all mail for server "oldprime" and
forward it to user @ prime. There are masquerading options and the
like, but I don't THINK that's what I want (i.e. I still want
"oldprime" to have an OUTBOUND sendmail, but to do no delivery, so that
if a user has a cron job that emails him, it will still work).

If anyone needs any further output, please just ask.

One more thing:

The redirect apparently DOES work, as my postmaster account on prime is
getting all the bounces from oldprime not being able to send to alleged
non-users (root and my login both exist in the password file, so it
works there).