Re: [cobalt-users] Virtusertable, SiteAdmins and accept-email-for-domain...

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Tietze wrote:

> Not quite so, it's a result of not inserting a virtusertable catch-all to the error
> mailer for all undefined addresses. It's simply the wrong way to not do it, since user
> login names should be considered distinguished names of mailboxes, with e-mail
> addresses always being explicitly defined in the virtusertable. The GUI goes about
> half-way in this direction, as even aliases such as "userA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx userA" (user
> part of email address equals mailbox name) are inserted.

Which is always the way we've done it.  On our commercial hosting server
all our "user" names are codes.

> > Not necessarily fine.  See "sendmail" the O'Reilly book, Bryan Costales
> > with Eric Allman, page 274:
> 
> I did before I posted, even before the initial email I sent to you...

Okay, but as I (believe I) wrote you, I write on the list for everyone,
not just for the original author <smile>.

> It won't, because an explicit virtusertable entry that matches exists. I have
> thoroughly tested and verified what I wrote in the first place.

I understand that.  I just didn't know why, until I was shown that 8.9.3
is different in behavior from what's documented in "sendmail" for 8.8.x.

> Yes, that's what I thought. Remember my first email message on this subject? As I
> wrote, it only gets parsed once... what I believe this means is the virtusertable does
> a lookup only once *when called through a ruleset*, but the ruleset is, in reality,
> invoked anytime an e-mail address' domain part is in class w.

This of course makes a lot of sense; sometimes I can't see the forest
for the trees.

> > This is a good question for the Mail Help list.  Perhaps I'll ask it
> > there.

I've made a fool of myself on that list before <wry grin>.  One more
time can't hurt too badly.

> But then, reality proves me right... ;-)
> 
> > Anyone know anything I don't?
> 
> Use sendmail -bt, then use "/parse email@xxxxxxxxxxx" to see for yourself... it does
> behave as I wrote.

As I've noted.

Thanks <smile>.

Jeff
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