Re: [cobalt-users] Raq4 Patch 2.0.2-16620 screwed up server

["Al-Juhani" <aljuhani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Looks like that your mail server aliases is modified somehow "to include
www".  Anyway, to solve this please follow the instruction here:
http://www.cobaltfaqs.com/wiki/index.php/RestoringMailServerAliases

It is always a good practice to backup your sendmail configs before applying
updates.

Al-Juhani
aljuhani@xxxxxxxxx

----- Original Message -----
From: "misto.de - Support" <support@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Cobalt" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:32
Subject: [cobalt-users] Raq4 Patch 2.0.2-16620 screwed up server


> Yesterday evening I installed the newest Sendmail patch
> (RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.2-16620.pkg) on my Raq4.
>
> First I experienced a problem with a duplicate sendmail-conf-8.10.2-C5
> entry, removed it as told by by a forum article, then the patch
> installed.
>
> After this no mail exchange was possible, not incoming, not outgoing.
> Searching the forum I found the pop-before-relay-fix.pl. After
> installing it I could send but was not able to receive e-mails. Well,
> I discovered that I couldn't receive mails to aliases, but it worked
> with the complete user names. That means, misto001@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> worked, but cf@xxxxxxxx did not.
>
> Sending a mail from outside the server I got the error message "550
> 5.7.1 <cf@xxxxxxxx>... Relaying denied. IP name lookup failed
> [Sender-IP]". Sending a mail from another domain on the same server I
> got the error "SYSERR(root): www.misto.de. config error: mail loops
> back to me (MX problem?)"
>
> I tried all the other "Usefull scripts", but nothing helped. In the
> Email Server settings all fields were erased, so I filled them in
> manually, but it didn't help also. I searched the forum tried
> different suggestions (rebuilding virtusertable, rebuilding postgres
> data, renewing the alias entries via the gui ...) but nothing helped.
>
> Today morning another person had a look at the server but couldn't
> find anything also. Then he saw that in the Mail Server settings there
> was no entry for Maximum Message Size (I'm sure I filled this in...).
> He set it to 10 MB - and suddenly everything worked fine.Well, nearly
> everything, one domain is still blocked for e-mails, but I can delete
> and re-setup that one.
>
> Does anyone have an idea why all those strange things happened? I'm
> not too convinced that it will still work after a reboot und would
> feel better if someone had a real solution or explanation...
>
> Best regards, Carsten