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[cobalt-users] I sometimes receive a "User unknown" error for known users on my Cobalt RaQ4 server
- Subject: [cobalt-users] I sometimes receive a "User unknown" error for known users on my Cobalt RaQ4 server
- From: "Rishi Gangoly" <usergroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Apr 22 11:57:01 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
I sometimes receive a "User unknown" error for known users on my Cobalt RaQ4
server.
Observations
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Sometimes when I add or remove an email account, the /etc/mail/aliases file
gets autorebuilt by root (see log below). At that point if an email is being
received by the MTA (sendmail), it returns a "User unknown" error and
bounces it back.
Sample from my log file (narayan@xxxxxxxxx is a known user and works)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Apr 19 17:58:44 domain sendmail[27712]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases
autorebuilt by root
Apr 19 17:58:44 domain sendmail[27712]: h3JCShA27712: <narayan@xxxxxxxxx>...
User unknown
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Regards
Rishi