Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4-All-System-2.0.1-13993.pkg

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Smith wrote:

> Anybody have any problems with the Duplicate Email Alias 2.0.1 patch
> (RaQ4-All-System-2.0.1-13993.pkg) ?

Not yet <wry grin>.

> I searched the archives + google and couldn't find anything. After
> installing this patch, everything seemed to work just fine, until I messed
> around in the GUI under a vhost..and noticed that I received an error if I
> had an email alias set to "www.domain.com"....now I have read that this
> isn't correct, but I've never had any email problems with both
> "www.domain.com" and "domain.com" as email aliases.

It appears that before this patch the gui would allow you to make
entries it may not have properly parsed.  Now it does...

To backtrack and explain a bit... the gui fields must be parsed by the
Sun Cobalt "special sauce" and converted to a virtusertable line.  The
gui looks for a certain syntax, and if it doesn't find it, it may
perform in unexpected ways.

The proper way to create a "catchall" alias always has been
"@domain.com" and you should probably switch all your "catchall" aliases
to look like this.

> Since the GUI would not
> let me save with "www.domain.com", I deleted it, then the GUI let me save
> okay. However, shortly afterward, emails sent to that particular domain
> began to bounce.

Possibly because you didn't have any catchall alias anymore.

> I ran makemap hash virtusertable.db < virtusertable which
> yielded errors. I corrected the errors, but the emails continued to bounce.

Without seeing those errors I really can't tell you why you had them...
but I'd expect the emails to continue to bounce; you still didn't have a
catchall alias.

> All DNS entires are correct. I compared the new sendmail.cf to the old
> sendmail.cf, and saw numerous changes. I then backed up the new sendmail.cf,
> copied the old sendmail.cf to sendmail.cf, restarted sendmail and now
> everything works....(with the email aliases set as "www.domain.com" and
> "domain.com"...........WTF?

Don't know for sure, since I don't see a "diff" on the two sendmail.cf
files.

> So if anyone else has had a problem with this patch, do let me know. I'm
> quite curious as to how the problem was solved, if at all.

Nope, I didn't have the problem, because I've always used
"@www.domain.com" as my alias form (actually it's @host.domain.com, but
host is most often www).

Of course if you really meant "@www.domain.com", then I'd love to have
seen those virtusertable errors.

Jeff
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