[cobalt-developers] Email migration- issues with /etc/mail/aliases "No such user here"

["Adam Fleet" <afleet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm - sent this to the wrong list

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Fleet [mailto:afleet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 22 December 2003 12:48 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Email migration- issues with /etc/mail/aliases "No such user
here"


Hi Folks,

we are replacing an old Solaris machine with a new RAQ550 to act as a
mailserver for the domain digerati.com.au

I have set up all our user accounts ok, and they test out no problem.

I have added all the old entries to our new RAQ550's /etc/mail/aliases file.

A sample line:

webadmin:      afleet, lukes, prod1, steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I then run newaliases:

[root mail]# pwd
/etc/mail
[root mail]# newaliases
/etc/mail/aliases: 61 aliases, longest 114 bytes, 1797 bytes total
/etc/mail/aliases.majordomo: 22 aliases, longest 125 bytes, 1138 bytes total

which seems ok to me

Then, I try to send an email to webadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, then email gets to
the new RAQ550, but is rejected (from /var/log/maillog:)

Dec 22 12:20:28 vishnu sendmail[2413]: hBM1KSp02413:
<webadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... No such user here
Dec 22 12:20:28 vishnu sendmail[2413]: hBM1KSp02413:
from=<afleet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=corelli.digerati.com.au [203.55.204.4]

For what it's worth, this is what webmail reports when I try to send an
email to webadmin:

<<< 220 localhost ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6/8.11.6; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 12:23:14
+1100
>>> EHLO digerati.com.au
<<< 250-vishnu.digerati.com.au Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet
you
<<< 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
<<< 250-8BITMIME
<<< 250-SIZE
<<< 250-DSN
<<< 250-ONEX
<<< 250-ETRN
<<< 250-XUSR
<<< 250-AUTH PLAIN
<<< 250 HELP
>>> MAIL FROM:<afleet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<<< 250 2.1.0 <afleet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT TO:<webadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<<< 553 5.3.0 <webadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... No such user here
>>> RSET
<<< 250 2.0.0 Reset state
>>> QUIT
<<< 221 2.0.0 vishnu.digerati.com.au closing connection


Any suggestions? Thanks in advance...

Cheers,

Adam Fleet.
Manager, Technical Support and Infrastructure
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