RE: [cobalt-developers] RaQ3-en-Update-OS Release 4.0

["Jose Luis Aguilar" <jlaguilar@xxxxxxx>]

Another issue with this update is email relaying. The RAQ3 now checks if a
user is defined in a virtual host before accepting email for it. For
example:

Before, if you had an user called "example" defined under "virtualsite1.com"
you could actually send email to "example@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" and it would get
to the user defined under "virtualsite1.com".

Now, sendmail replies with a "553 No such user" error, if the user is not
defined in the virtual site that the email is intended for. If the email is
sent to "example@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" instead of "example@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
the site must be enabled to receive email for the domain in the site
configuration and the user "example" must be defined in
"www.virtualsite.com".

I had many sites for sub-domains: (e.g. www.mydomain.com,
support.mydomain.com, mail.mydomain.com) and I had users defined on all the
sites. The MX record for all those hosts were set to "mail.mydomain.com" and
"mail.mydomain.com" was set to receive mail for the domain. After applying
this patch, none of my users defined in www.mydomain.com or
support.mydomain.com could receive mail sent to "user@xxxxxxxxxxxx".

This is ok and I think it is a logical fix, but it would have been nice if
Cobalt had documented this new feature somewhere. This feature was
completely undocumented.

JLA

P.D.: As for the "*.md5lst files", I just moved them to the "obsolete"
directory found in that directory. That's exactly what the upgrade-me script
does after appending a note at the bottom of the file like "Obsoleted on
DATE".


-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Keegan
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 3:54 PM
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] RaQ3-en-Update-OS Release 4.0


> The only thing that I noticed is that the following updates that get
> obsoleted by this update do not get removed from the list of programs
> installed in the server under the "install software" section of the
"control
> panel".

Question for Cobalt:

The fix should be as simple as removing the *.md5lst files from
/var/lib/cobalt , correct?

On a related note, will there be a similar OS Update release for the Raq2
forthcoming?

--
John Keegan
john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://RackShare.com



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