Re: [cobalt-users] sendmail oddity

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Cooper wrote:

> When I generate a message either from a web form, the command line, or
> another domain using smtp to the Cobalt box, and send it to
> support@xxxxxxxxxx  it gets delivered to the support account which belongs
> to another domain (the one from the virtusertable entry above).

That's because your RaQ thinks it's handling mail for the domain. 
Remove all mentions of it from "Host Domain Alaises" under "Control
Panel | Services | Email Server".

> This is causing a problem since mail destined for domain.com is ending up in
> accounts that belong to anotherdoman.com

Since the RaQ thinks it's supposed to be handling email for the domain,
it hands it off to the "local" mailer (probably procmail) which just
delivers it to a local username that's the same.

> Has anybody seen this behavior before or know of a way to correct this?

Yes.  All the time.  It's a typical misconfiguration in Linux boxes when
people really don't understand how email works.

> My first thought was to add a mailertable entry from domain.com and point it
> to Server "B", but it doesn't look like that feature is enabled on the
> Cobalt box.

It's not.  You can enable it.  It won't help.  The Raq will still think
the domain is local until you remove it from the list of local domains.

Jeff
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