Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt RAQ4 Mail problem

[Mark Bitterling <mark@xxxxxx>]

Paul Brown wrote:

> <original>
> We have recently added a RAQ4 to our network and moved some of our
> websites over to it.  The Cobalt is also handling email for ONE domain
> with 5 user.  We have a dedicated mail server that handles email for all
> other users.
>
> The problem is that for some reason the Cobalt does not want to allow
> our mail server to handle the email.  For example, http://www.ky.net is
> hosted on the Cobalt RAQ server, but my email newt@xxxxxx mailbox is on
> our mail server.  Mail comes and goes just fine, with one exception.  If
> an email message originates on the Cobalt server (ie being created by a
> CGI script) and is addressed to newt@xxxxxx then the Cobalt will not
> send it to the mail server.  Apparently the Cobalt thinks that since it
> hosts http://www.ky.net then it should also needs to have a local
> newt@xxxxxx mailbox too.  Since it does not have one, the Cobalt gives
> an error saying that the user does not exist.
>
> Any suggestions?  It seems like this should be really simple, but I can
> not find where anything is telling sendmail to verify the user account
> locally for the hosted domains.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>
> Mark Bitterling
> newt@xxxxxx
> </original>
>
> Mark
>
> You are giving too much personal information away here about your setup....
> Check that you have upto date security on your system as there is a slight chance you may now be HACKED..
>
> Regards
>
> Paul

I have no idea what setup information I gave that would benefit a hacker.  Everything I said is readily
available information to anyone - especially anyone who I have ever given a business card to.  We publicize
our web address everywhere we can and it is easy to figure out that it is currently on a Cobalt server.  The
only other info I gave was my test email address which is also available from many different places.  If you
look at this message, you can hopefully also easily figure out what my more commonly used email address is
(ie the one I use on my business cards).

Anyway, I still need help resolving the issue outlined in my original message.  The Cobalt insists on trying
to verify the outgoing email addresses locally even though the MX records correctly point to a totally
separate mail server.  I have searched this mailing list's archives and it seems like others have run into
this in the past, but I have been unable to find any real answers in the replies.  Via the web
administration, I have told the Cobalt to only handle email for one domain, but it wants to look for users
locally for all domains for which it hosts websites.  Why is it doing this?

Mark Bitterling
mark@xxxxxx