[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail giving me user unknown for a local user account

[Neil Aggarwal]

Hello:

I do have parasailworkshop.com in my local-host-names file.

As a test, I created another user account with the name
parasail and changed my mapping to point to that
and everything worked fine.

So, any ideas why sendmail would accept "parasail"
but not "parasailWorkshop"?

I can repeat this as many times as I like.
I have double-checked the spelling, so that is not
a problem.

Is this a bug in sendmail?

Thanks,
	Neil.

--
Neil Aggarwal
JAMM Consulting, Inc.    (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com
Custom Internet Development    Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
> Of Neil Aggarwal
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:18 AM
> To: NTLUG
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail giving me user unknown for a local
> user account
>
>
> Hello:
>
> This is strange. When I try to send a message to
> test at parasailworkshop.com, I get that the user is
> unknown. The error message is: 550 5.1.1 User unknown
>
> I am running on RedHat 7.3 with the sendmail that installed with it.
> (rpm -q sendmail gives me sendmail-8.11.6-15)
>
> I have these entries in my virtualusertable:
> webmaster at parasailworkshop.com  neil
> @parasailworkshop.com   parasailWorkshop
>
> The virtualusertable.db is up to date.
>
> There is a user account parasailWorkshop on my system.
>
> I dont know why it would not work.
>
> In case you need, here is my sendmail.mc file:
> divert(-1)
> dnl This is the sendmail macro config file. If you make changes to this
> file,
> dnl you need the sendmail-cf rpm installed and then have to generate a
> dnl new /etc/sendmail.cf by running the following command:
> dnl
> dnl        m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
> dnl
> include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')
> VERSIONID(`linux setup for Red Hat Linux')dnl
> OSTYPE(`linux')
> dnl Uncomment and edit the following line if your mail needs to
> be sent out
> dnl through an external mail server:
> dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')
> define(`confDEF_USER_ID',``8:12'')dnl
> undefine(`UUCP_RELAY')dnl
> undefine(`BITNET_RELAY')dnl
> define(`confAUTO_REBUILD')dnl
> define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl
> define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST',true)dnl
> define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',true)dnl
> define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
> define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl
> dnl define(`STATUS_FILE', `/etc/mail/statistics')dnl
> define(`UUCP_MAILER_MAX', `2000000')dnl
> define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl
> define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,novrfy,noexpn,restrictqrun')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> dnl define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `4h')dnl
> dnl define(`confTO_QUEUERETURN', `5d')dnl
> dnl define(`confQUEUE_LA', `12')dnl
> dnl define(`confREFUSE_LA', `18')dnl
> dnl FEATURE(delay_checks)dnl
> FEATURE(`no_default_msa',`dnl')dnl
> FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl
> FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl
> FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl
> FEATURE(redirect)dnl
> FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
> FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl
> FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl
> dnl The '-t' option will retry delivery if e.g. the user runs over his
> quota.
> FEATURE(local_procmail,`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
> FEATURE(`access_db',`hash -o /etc/mail/access.db')dnl
> FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
> EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl
> dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback device 127.0.0.1
> dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out if you want
> dnl to accept email over the network.
> dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
> dnl NOTE: binding both IPv4 and IPv6 daemon to the same port requires
> dnl       a kernel patch
> dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`port=smtp,Addr=::1, Name=MTA-v6, Family=inet6')
> dnl We strongly recommend to comment this one out if you want to protect
> dnl yourself from spam. However, the laptop and users on computers that do
> dnl not have 24x7 DNS do need this.
> dnl FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
> dnl FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX')dnl
> MAILER(smtp)dnl
> MAILER(procmail)dnl
> Cwlocalhost.localdomain
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>     Neil.
>
>
> --
> Neil Aggarwal
> JAMM Consulting, Inc.    (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com
> Custom Internet Development    Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases
>
>
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