Re: [cobalt-users] Postmaster emails disappearing

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Roy A. Urick" wrote:

> Just noticed whenever emails are addressed to admin@xxxxxxxxxx, they arent
> denied, bounced or otherwise erroring out, but they dont seem to be getting
> delivered. this also applies to postmaster as well. I have set an email
> address for the admin acct in the GUI, and double and triple checked it for
> accuracy.

Here's the command I run from the command line to see if "admin" (note,
there's no domain name necessary), and the results I get:

[admin admin]$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv admin
jlasman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx deliverable: mailer local, user jlasman

Here's what happens when I try it with the domain name (before having an
alias or user set up to receive the email...

[admin admin]$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx No such user here

And then after I ad "admin" as an alias, in the gui, for
jlasman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, here's what I get:

[admin admin]$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx deliverable: mailer local, user jlasman

The -bv options can be used by sendmail to check to see if an address is
deliverable; if it's for a local address it'll return the deliverability
directly to the specific mailbox.

However if it's an address at another machine...

[admin admin]$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx deliverable: mailer esmtp, host ez-access.com.,
user admi
n@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

it may look deliverable even if it isn't, for remote addresses, sendmail
only checks to see if it can find a route to the other domain (there is
no admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, but sendmail doesn't figure that out for you).

> any ideas?

You don't say what model RaQ or Qube you've got, but if you're not
getting similar results to mine, you may have some kind of configuration
error.

Jeff
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