Re: [gentoo-user] Sendmail virtusertable

[Hiren Dave]

Hi Jarry,

Thanks a lot for your time in solving my problem. I now understand the
concept of virtusertable.

TnR
Hiren


On 3/25/06, Jarry <jarry@×××.net> wrote:
>
> Hiren Dave wrote:
>
> > Here I have used yahoo.com domain but it can be any
> > domain lets say domain.com . My network is not
> > connected to Internet. Still do you think that the following
> > will not work if guru.com exists and domain.com
> > does not exists physically.
>
> If your domain is NOT connected to internet, how is your MTA
> (sendmail) gonna find which mailserver is authorised for
> "domain.com"? "domain.com" does not have to "exist", but there
> MUST be a nameserver, authorised for "domain.com"...
>
> In such a case, you must be sure, that your default nameserver
> (in resolv.conf) is authorised for guru.com AND domain.com
> (because as you said, your network is not connected to internet)
> and that it has MX-record in zone-files for both domains pointing
> to server1.guru.com.
>
> I recommend that you start checking your nameserver first, with
> "dig any domain.com", for example, or nslookup. In the answer there
> must be something like "domain.com. IN MX 10 server1.guru.com."
> If you do not get it, your nameserver is misconfigured, and
> your MTA (sendmail) does not know where to deliver mail
> for domain.com.
>
> Once more:
> 1. nameserver authorised for a certain domain (e.g. domain.com)
> defines WHERE mail for this domain should be delivered
> 2. virtusertable maps virtual users to local mailboxes.
> But just adding entry in virtusertable does not mean your
> mailserver will get mail for that virtual user/domain...
>
> And one more thing, there should be some entries in logs,
> if your mail can not be delivered. If necessary, increase
> log levels for bind/sendmail to get more info...
>
> Jarry
>
> BTW, could you please turn off that html-garbage?
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