[cobalt-users] RE: URGENT - Email Problem

["Tomi Crnicki" <tcrnicki@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

The problem you have came with the RaQ3-en-OSUpdate Release 
3.0. Maybe the 3.0 Update on a RAQ2 might also have this 
"problem" but we will find this out  when we do the update next 
weekend on our RAQ2 servers.

After you updated the server the virtusertable was recreated and for 
each user you got a entry in the virtusertable:

<username>@<domain>	<username>

Also now when you add a user using the GUI you get such a entry 
together with the aliases you choose. This means that even a user 
with no aliases added now has a entry in the virtusertable and 
receives mail!

As this caused lots of problems in similar situations like yours on 
one of our RAQ's we were forced to clean the virtusertable 
manually and patch

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Cobalt/User.pm

Just comment out the line after this comment (like below) to avoid 
this for happening in the future:

# add an alias to self
#           push @alii, "$name\@$fqdn";



So, to resolve your problem, edit the /etc/virtusertable and delete 
entries:

webmaster@<domain>	webmaster

except the one for the 'real' webmaster if that also isn't a catch-all 
E-mail. If it is a catch-all E-mail you can also safely remove that 
entry too, as you in such a acase have later in the virtusertable a 
entry:

@<domain_of_real_webmaster>	webmaster


Don't forget to rebuild the virtusertable and HUP restart sendmail. 
The easy way to do the above is to just add a dummy user on 
some domain and then delete him as then the GUI does this for 
you.

Also patch User.pm to avoid this happening inthe future!


Hope this helps!

Regards,

Tomi Crnicki - Abacus, Croatia


----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Chester <seanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 3:07 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] URGENT - Email Problem


> i have the problem on all my domains, 
>
> most of my domains are catch all, but i do have a 'real' email
> address for webmaster, (webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) if i
> send a email to webmaster@ANY_CATCH_ALL_DOMAIN_I_SETUP it doesnt
> go to
> the catch all, it goes to the 'real' webmaster.
> (@westburyparkschool)
>
>
> iv asked for help many times, i dont really thinnk people
> understood my problem. 
>
> let me know if you fix it :-)