hi Dan,
from Newbie to another one :) not sure yet.. but shouldn't be
mail.spiderplant.net also in your [locals]? You did sent the mail locally
as far i can see..
regards
Anton Pirnat
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Dan Fairs wrote:
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:15:04 +0100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Dan Fairs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Newbie Alert :) - Bouncing messages to virtual domains
>
> Hi there,
>
> Apologies if this is a little simple, but I can't seem to find much in
> the way of "if it doesn't work try this" type documentation. If there is
> some, I'm more than happy to RTFM... just show me where the FM is... ;)
>
> Essentially, the problem seems to be that mail sent to a user at the
> virtual domain is recieved happily by my mail server, but bounces
> because it arrives with the correct username but the 'real' host domain
> name. Read on, and all will become clear.
>
> OK.I've created a virtual domain mail.spiderplant.net. (Feel free to use
> nslookup to check my MX setup - it should all be OK though, since mail
> *does* arrive.) I created the domain using
>
> ../vadddomain mail.spiderplant.net
>
> All fine, no errors. Then I did:
> ../vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] test
>
> Again, everything's fine. A du in ~vpopmail shows everything's created
> properly:
> [root@bonsai vpopmail]$ du
> 10 ./etc
> 483 ./bin
> 1 ./users
> 1 ./domains/mail.spiderplant.net/postmaster/Maildir/cur
> 1 ./domains/mail.spiderplant.net/postmaster/Maildir/new
> 1 ./domains/mail.spiderplant.net/postmaster/Maildir/tmp
> 5 ./domains/mail.spiderplant.net/postmaster/Maildir
> 6 ./domains/mail.spiderplant.net/postmaster
> 1 ./domains/mail.spiderplant.net/test/Maildir/cur
> 1 ./domains/mail.spiderplant.net/test/Maildir/new
> 1 ./domains/mail.spiderplant.net/test/Maildir/tmp
> 5 ./domains/mail.spiderplant.net/test/Maildir
> 6 ./domains/mail.spiderplant.net/test
> 19 ./domains/mail.spiderplant.net
> 20 ./domains
> 137 ./lib
> 13 ./include
> 33 ./doc/man_html
> 26 ./doc/doc_html
> 60 ./doc
> 734 .
>
> Now, upon trying to send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get:
>
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
> [qmail message trimmed]
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
>
> --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
>
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: (qmail 97290 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2000 13:52:25 -0000
> Received: from smtp.screaming.net (212.49.224.20)
> by bonsai.spiderplant.net with SMTP; 18 Aug 2000 13:52:25 -0000
> Received: from spiderplant.net (dyn212-ras7.screaming.net
> [212.49.230.212])
> by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01150
> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:55:03 GMT
> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:52:53 +0100
> From: Dan Fairs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686)
> X-Accept-Language: en
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: This is a test
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> This is a test mail after a restart of qmail
>
> [end]
>
> Why is this happening? Is it something to do with the fact that
> spiderplant.net is a 'real' domain and mail.spiderplant.net is not? Is
> there an issue with the ordering of names in the control files? In fact,
> here are my /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts, virtualdomains and locals:
>
> [rcpthosts]
> localhost
> bonsai.spiderplant.net
> spiderplant.net
> btclick.com
> screaming.net
> mail.spiderplant.net
>
> [virtualdomains]
> mail.spiderplant.net:mail.spiderplant.net
>
> [locals]
> localhost
> bonsai.spiderplant.net
> spiderplant.net
>
> I believe it's correct for the virtual domain not to be listed in
> locals; is this correct?
>
> Finally, the qmail log shows what you'd expect given the mail I
> received:
>
> @40000000399d3fa408ef029c new msg 6582
> @40000000399d3fa409237464 info msg 6582: bytes 944 from
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 97290 uid 1010
> @40000000399d3fa40b05e064 starting delivery 1: msg 6582 to local
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> @40000000399d3fa40b19c624 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> @40000000399d3fa41030b8d4 delivery 1: failure:
> Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
> @40000000399d3fa4111b4f84 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> @40000000399d3fa414dd1e2c bounce msg 6582 qp 97293
> @40000000399d3fa4154d25dc end msg 6582
>
>
> Advice and ideas are *greatly* appreciated...
>
> Many thanks,
> Dan
>
> --
> Daniel Fairs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> System Administrator +44 (0) 7881 922949
> spiderplant.net
>
