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Date:      Sun, 19 May 2002 08:20:39 -0500
From:      "Edward Shabotinsky" <lanshark@bsinet.net>
To:        "Jason Hunt" <jhunt@lynden.on.ca>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sendmail's virtusertable not respected
Message-ID:  <001a01c1ff37$f8b32a20$0201a8c0@stranger>
References:  <20020518214343.V42671-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org>

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Hi
I had similar problem, ..
if i remember correctly-> check sendmail.cw or file with same function.
and i would recommend to rebuild sendmail.cf (looks like some thinks in
local rules is missing).

Edward Shabotinsky
System Engineer
BriteSiteInet Inc.
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lanshark@bsinet.net
www.britesite.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Hunt" <jhunt@lynden.on.ca>
To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 8:54 PM
Subject: sendmail's virtusertable not respected


> Hmmm, I've been fighting with this for an hour;
>
> I have a catchall in /etc/mail/virtusertable (this is the only entry
> actually) to send all mail for my domain to a local user, ie:
>
> @domain.com                     leth
>
> Looks good to me, but I am getting this in syslog:
>
> May 18 20:43:19 blap sm-mta[518]: g4J0gwPo000516: SYSERR(root):
> mail.domain.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
>
> I obviously have DNS setup properly because it's coming back to the
> machine.  However, it shouldn't be even making a connection to itself
> because the domain is in the virtusertable, so that would be searched
> first.  It just doesn't seem to think the line is in there.
>
> "Kvirtuser hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable" is in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
>
> I don't think it is a permissions problem on the virtuser table, because:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    602 May 18 20:35 virtusertable
> I think it would also complain if it can't read the file.
>
> I am using the default .cf that comes with freebsd (4.6-RC from a day or
> two ago) which has sendmail 8.12.3.
>
> Any ideas where I can start looking for the cause of this?  I am
> somewhat familiar with sendmail, but never ran into this before.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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