At 6:12 AM -0800 12/2/03, Mark Hartman wrote:At 3:10 AM -0600 12/2/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Why would including the domain name cause it to skip over the routing rule?
If your "main domain name" is "greenbuilder.com," this will happen. What you need to do is give your computer its own subdomain name; for example, my main domain is "harthaven.com," but my server has the subdomain assignment "castor.harthaven.com". The last line of my router is:
harthaven.com = castor.harthaven.com
This way, I get to treat harthaven.com consistently with all the other domains that I host. If I didn't do this - and this is what I think you're running into - my "main domain name" is stripped from any addresses that go to the router before the first pass of the router. This would result in the kind of problem you're seeing.
In your DNS, put A records for both greenbuilder.com and x.greenbuilder.com, and (for documentation) point your MX records at the new name. Then make this change to your router, and the inconsistency problems should go away within a day or so as the information propagates.
Ok, I might be getting closer. Still not there though.
Since I already have this machine named as mail.greenbuilder.com I just switched the main domain name to that and re-worked the router table to fit. It made some difference.
Here are the relevant router bits:
205.238.129.197=mail.greenbuilder.com
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = <local>info_greenbuilder
<info_greenbuilder> = TOLD
TOLD.info_greenbuilder = <local>info_greenbuildergreenbuilder.com=mail.greenbuilder.com
Looking at the three middle lines (indented)
If line 1 is used by itself (2 & 3 commented out), it properly routes to the info_greenbuilder mailbox.
If lines 1, 2 & 3 are not commented out and I send directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it properly routes through TOLD and into the info_greenbuilder mailbox.
However, if lines 1, 2 & 3 are not commented out and I send to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it bounces back to the sender with User Unknown.
Here's the full log of that transaction (user Kristine is sending though a separate SIMS box at mms.greenbuilder.com):
02:48:35 5 ROUTER Input: Kristine(greenbuilder.com)
02:48:35 5 ROUTER Parser: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Kristine(greenbuilder.com)
02:48:35 4 ROUTER redirected to email(mail.greenbuilder.com) (safe)
02:48:35 5 ROUTER Input: Kristine(mail.greenbuilder.com)
02:48:35 5 ROUTER Parser: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Kristine(mail.greenbuilder.com)
02:48:35 5 ROUTER Input: Kristine()
02:48:35 5 ROUTER Parser: Kristine -> Kristine()
02:48:35 5 ROUTER Input: info(greenbuilder.com)
02:48:35 5 ROUTER Parser: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> info(greenbuilder.com)
02:48:35 4 ROUTER mapped to Inet(info_greenbuilder) (safe)
02:48:35 5 ROUTER Input: info_greenbuilder()
02:48:35 1 SMTP-913(mms.greenbuilder.com) SPAM? Recipient '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: user unknown
If I instead put in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>= TOLD
TOLD.info = <local>info_greenbuilderIt'll route through TOLD *and* will deliver to the info_greenbuilder account. Unfortunately, if I also want to run other accounts like [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] through the TOLD filter, they'll end up in the info_greenbuilder mailbox too, which is something I don't want.
The same problem will occur for any other common email names like "john@", "webmaster@", "sales@" etc.
If I write this way to work around that problem:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>= TOLD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] = <local>info_greenbuilderit doesn't deliver. It just gets stuck in the queue. And the address on the piece in the queue is "greenbuilder.com TOLD.info", as it should be.
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