Josh,
All well and good, but definitely not what I asked about.

Anyone know how to do what I asked for?  I need to be able to mail to 
6121231234 at faxserver.company.com

The phone number can't (and shouldn't anyway) be in the hostname.

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Josh Welch wrote:

> Gerry wrote:
>> Can anyone guide me in setting up a sendmail rule or configuration that 
>> sends numeric addresses like phone numbers to a particular user or process?
>> 
>> I would like to have sendmail accept mail from a copier and route it to the 
>> fax send process if and only if the userid looks like a fax number.
>> e.g.  6121231234 at faxserver.company.com
>> 
>> It must be built off of the regexp map like this but I don't understand 
>> what to put in the last line to actually get it to deliver to someone else.
>> 
>> #LOCAL_CONFIG
>>  Kallnumbers regex -a at MATCH ^[0-9]+$
>>  LOCAL_RULESETS
>>  SLocal_check_mail          # check address against\
>>                              various regex checks
>>  R$*                        $:  $>Parse0 $>3 $1
>>  R$+ < @ bigisp.com.  >48   $:  $(allnumbers $1 $)
>>  R at MATCH                    $#error $:553 Header Error
>> 
>> 
>> But even if I figure that out, what am I supposed to put in an mc file (as 
>> opposed to the cf file) ?
>> 
>> I'm running Redhat 9 and sendmail-8.12.
>> 
>> Displaying my ignorance,
>> Gerry
>> 
>
> Hylafax has a component called faxmail that you can use for this type of 
> setup. You would actually send the mail to $RECIPIENT@$FAXNUMBER.FAX, i.e. 
> josh at 18005551212.fax. You would then add a config line to Sendmail to let it 
> know what to do to things going to the fax domain. There is a write up on the 
> Hylafax website.
> http://www.hylafax.org/howto/clients/sendmail-faxmail-mangling.html
>
> Josh

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Gerry Skerbitz
gsker at comcast.net