[courier-users] user unknown errors after restart

2005-01-04 Thread Michael Jinks
My desktop suffered an unplanned reboot this morning, and since then, courier refuses mail to addresses not listed in the aliases database. The error is 550 User unknown. Mail to my own account, or root, or postmaster, all draw that error; but mail sent to my pager alias as defined in a file in

Re: [courier-users] user unknown errors after restart

2005-01-04 Thread Michael Jinks
Following up to myself with more info: I've just realized that a cron job running under my account delivers to me successfully. Also, if I manually craft a message to a bad local address with myself as the envelope sender (again, in a telnet session to localhost port 25), the mail delivery status

Re: [courier-users] user unknown errors after restart

2005-01-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Jinks writes: I'm starting to think that the problem isn't actually with account lookups, but with Courier not knowing that it's supposed to accept mail for my machine. Shouldn't the hostname in /etc/courier/me take care of that? Yes, provided the locals and the hosteddomains files don't

Re: [courier-users] user unknown errors after restart

2005-01-04 Thread mjinks
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:35:51PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Michael Jinks writes: I'm starting to think that the problem isn't actually with account lookups, but with Courier not knowing that it's supposed to accept mail for my machine. Shouldn't the hostname in /etc/courier/me take