Re: [Dovecot] User Unknown Sendmail Error

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Scott Silva wrote:


on 3-4-2008 4:22 PM Paul Roberts spake the following:
Sorry I wasn't clearer...when I send mail to that user from an external 
account (in this case my gmail account) I get the "user unknown" error from 
sendmail.


-Paul

Still not a dovecot issue. It is your MTA that is at fault, or its 
configuration.


To phrase Scott's answer differently:

sendmail does not use the Dovecot framework to authentificate or validate 
users (unfortunately). Therefore you have to configure sendmail to use the 
same user DB or forward (alias) your users via a special MDA line.


Bye.

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Steffen Kaiser

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Re: [Dovecot] User Unknown Sendmail Error

[Scott Silva]

on 3-4-2008 4:22 PM Paul Roberts spake the following:
Sorry I wasn't clearer...when I send mail to that user from an external 
account (in this case my gmail account) I get the "user unknown" error 
from sendmail.


-Paul


Still not a dovecot issue. It is your MTA that is at fault, or its 
configuration.

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Re: [Dovecot] User Unknown Sendmail Error

[Paul Roberts]

Sorry I wasn't clearer...when I send mail to that user from an  
external account (in this case my gmail account) I get the "user  
unknown" error from sendmail.


-Paul



On Mar 4, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Uldis Pakuls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Paul Roberts wrote:
I am totally stumped here.  I have setup a dovecot user and I can  
telnet to
port 110 and login no problem with that user.  When I try to send  
mail I get

an error from sendmail:
Mar  4 13:39:56 flashyhome sendmail[5014]: m24JdtGp005014: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>...

User unknown




"When I try to send mail I get an error from sendmail"

dovecot _is not_ sendmail your MX setup is separate thing. check  
your MX setup or at least provide your "sendmail": (postfix,  
sendmai,l exim?) config.


Uldis

Re: [Dovecot] User Unknown Sendmail Error

[Uldis Pakuls]

Paul Roberts wrote:

I am totally stumped here.  I have setup a dovecot user and I can telnet to
port 110 and login no problem with that user.  When I try to send mail I get
an error from sendmail:
Mar  4 13:39:56 flashyhome sendmail[5014]: m24JdtGp005014: <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>...
User unknown

  


"When I try to send mail I get an error from sendmail"

dovecot _is not_ sendmail your MX setup is separate thing. check 
your MX setup or at least provide your "sendmail": (postfix, sendmai,l 
exim?) config.


Uldis

[Dovecot] User Unknown Sendmail Error

[Paul Roberts]

I am totally stumped here.  I have setup a dovecot user and I can telnet to
port 110 and login no problem with that user.  When I try to send mail I get
an error from sendmail:
Mar  4 13:39:56 flashyhome sendmail[5014]: m24JdtGp005014: <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>...
User unknown

Now apparenly I need to setup the sendmail.mc file...which I have:

MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl
MAILER(dovecot)

And:

more /usr/share/sendmail-cf/mailer/dovecot.m4
##*##
###   DOVECOT Mailer specification  ###
##*##
Mdovecot,   P=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver, F=DFMPhnu9,
 S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP/HdrFromSMTP,
 T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
 A=deliver -d $u

If anyone can give me any advice on what I need to do it would be much
appreciated.  Thanks so much in advance!

-Paul