Documentation bug :-)
Will explain in longer mail when i have access to a computer tomorrow.
Cheers
Henri Kemppainen <ducl...@guu.fi> a C)critB :
>> Hi.
>>
>> inet <-----> hosting.com <-----> mail.hosting.com
>>
>> smtpd.conf ...
>>
>> listen on ext
>> map "virtuals" { source plain "/etc/mail/virtuals.plain" }
>> accept from all for virtual virtuals relay
>>
>> virtuals.plain ...
>>
>> postmas...@hosted.com somewh...@gmail.com
>
>[..]
>
>> If I send mail to the virtual domain I get "bounces" back to the
>> originating server - recipient rejected.
>> If I check the default log (/var/log/maillog) on the mail machine I
>> see the mail is getting that far and the same error is there -
>> recipient rejected.
>
>There's something odd about virtuals; though the code I'm running is no
>longer current (5.0-BETA, to be precise). Here's what makemap.8 says:
> Virtual domains are kept in maps. To create single virtual address,
> add ``u...@example.com user'' to the virtual map. To handle all mail
> destined to any user at example.com, add ``@example.com user'' to the
> virtual map.
>
>I tried this with a very minimal local setup. smtpd.conf:
> listen on lo0
>
> map "aliases" { source plain "/etc/mail/aliases" }
> map "virtual" { source plain "/etc/mail/virtual" }
>
> accept for virtual "virtual" deliver to mbox
> accept for local alias aliases deliver to mbox
>
>virtual:
> somebody@virtual.domain duclare
>
>Trying to send to address gets me recipient rejected:
> $ echo test|mail somebody@virtual.domain
> send-mail: 530 5.0.0 Recipient rejected: somebody@virtual.domain
>
>I added some debug printfs, and they show that map_stdio_lookup is called
>with key="virtual.domain". There is no such key, and the mail is rejected.
>Out of curiosity, I added a matching line to virtual just to see what
>happens:
> virtual.domain duclare
> somebody@virtual.domain duclare
>
>With this setup, the mail command above works, and my local user receives
>the message. Smtpd makes these lookups:
> >>> map_stdio_lookup [key=virtual.domain]
> aliases_vdomain_exist: 'virtual.domain' exists
> >>> map_stdio_lookup [key=somebody@virtual.domain]
> aliases_virtual_exist: 'somebody@virtual.domain' exists
> >>> map_stdio_lookup [key=somebody@virtual.domain]
> aliases_virtual_get: 'somebody@virtual.domain' resolved to 1 nodes
> lka_resolve_node: node is local username: duclare
>
>I hope Gilles can tell whether this is a documentation bug or code bug. Or
>maybe I just missed something obvious (such as a sufficiently recent
>snapshot) :-).
