Re: [cobalt-users] Mail Rewrite Error

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Jeff Lasman wrote:

I don't think it's changing accept mail for domain tho, i think it's
making any change that affects email, i did the following test (it's a
slow day ;)

in GUI add user:
      moron, alias idiot

Gui now shows:

Full Name User Name  Email Aliases
more.on   moron  idiot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

---
in virtualusertable:

idiot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx     moron   (note no www.)
moron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx moron                                              
-----
[modify email of moron]
add bozo
----- 
GUI shows
Full Name User Name  Email Aliases
 more.on  moron      bozo       (where did the domain name go ?)
                     idiot
-----

now in virtialusertable:

moron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx moron
idiot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx moron
bozo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  moron

Note that the domain has been quietly changed by the GUI the *second*
time around, now it's different than it was the first time...

It would be nice if the GUI did what i told it instead of what it thought
i wanted ;0


--------
> Gordon wrote:
> 
> > There's a rule in sendmail.cf to map joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx to
> > joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, which is fine except the MX record tells sendmail
> > to convert www.somewhere.com back to somewhere.com, thus the
> > endless loop...
> > 
> > having an explicit domain name in the alias or a different MX record seems
> > to let sendmail skip this rule...
> 
> Soon after getting my RaQ2, I noticed the virtusertable was full of a
> lot of "weird" stuff you'd never find in one you created yourself.
> 
> So I spent some time doing an analysis.
> 
> Before I begin, let me stress that I did this analysis for myself, that
> it's a cursory analysis, and that no warranty as to its correctness is
> expressed or implied <smile>.
> 
> When you set up a "virtual site" on the RaQ2 or 3 (don't know about the
> original RaQ or the Qubes), the web-based gui interface sets up the RaQ
> to accept mail for the domain as you set it up, including
> "hostname.domain.com".  When you check "Accept Email for Domain" the RaQ
> adds code to map addresses from <username@xxxxxxxxxx> to
> <username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.  Weird.  Decidedlly nonstandard.  But it
> works.
> 
> Jeff
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