RE: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 Email broken user@anydomainonbox arg

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi,
> At 20:41 28-12-2001 -0500, BobbyT wrote:
> >I'm pretty sure the problem is somewhere in virtusertable 
> and it's not 
> >normal for a raq to do this.  But nobody seems to know how to fix it 
> >and
> 
> Open the virtusertable in a text editor and verify whether 
> the entries are unique.




Okay,
Open up the virtusertable in something like pico (pico
/etc/virtusertable) and look for the CATCH-ALL entry.

When sendmail doesn't match up an entry in the virtusertable, it will
default either to the catch-all entry, or if that doesn't exist, it will
check for ANY local user with the qualifying name. Hence, you getting
the mail.
So:
bobbyt@xxxxxxxxxx bobbyt
somebody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx somebody

Here, if you emailed somebody@xxxxxxxxxx since there isn't an entry, OR
catch-all entry it would look in the list of users on the raq, find the
user somebody and give them the mail.


At the bottom of the virtusertable there should be a couple of entries
like this:

@ssmofo.net	error:nouser No such user here

This would catch any of the run-off, BEFORE it looks in the list of
users on the raq. If that entry doesn't exist, put it in RIGHT at the
bottom of the virtusertable file.
My Raq3i puts these in automatically, so unsure why yours does not,
check that you haven't modified the virtusertable and corrupted an
entry, as sendmail is picky about the file being perfect. If its NOT
then it will ignore everything after the incorrect entry.
The spacing is important, between the incoming address and the
destination is a TAB, NOT a space or multiple spaces.

After making changes, rehash the virtusertable with:
Makemap has /etc/virtusertable.db < /etc/virtusertable

And it should be working!!


Regards,

Andy Brown
andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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