Sendmail: redirect virtuser account to an external email address

Question

anyone knows how to redirect a sendmail virtuser account mail to an external email address?

This is the virtuser table:

contact@example.org contact.example.org

(In this form the mail to contact@example.org arrives ok to the inbox)

Then I set an alias from:

contact.example.org     external@domain.org

But doesn´t work... any idea?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Did you use "newaliases" command after editing the alias file ?

Answer 2

After changes in virtusertable file under /etc/mail for sendmail. You need to run below command to take effect in its database file virtusertable.db

makemap hash virtusertable.db < /etc/virtusertable

Then your emails forwarding will be start. Please try it and hope it helps.