[BlueOnyx:01172] Re: E-mail problem

[Rob Taylor]

Hi Stuart

--On 05 May 2009 13:58 +0100 "Stuart Clark (Datacenta)" <stuart.clark at datacenta.net> wrote:

> I have a site that I have setup on blueonyx that is having issues.
> When I try to e-mail info at site.com it is going to the postmaster address. 
> To test I removed the alias for info: postmaster from /etc/mail/aliases and tested and I now receive a user unknown error. If I e-mail the user account directly without aliases it works as expected but none of the aliases are working. I have tried to remove the account and recreate but I still have the same issue.
> If I create a different new account and add aliases it does work as expected.
> Why would these not be working? Could it be that there is some info stored that is being reused when I delete and recreate? If so how can I remove all trace of site.com to then recreate it cleanly.

Thats a bit odd, I take it there isn't any forwarding setup or anything like that?

What username have you used for the user that receives info at site.com?

Try setting it all back up as you want it to work and from the command line do:

sendmail -bv info at site.com

..this will tell you who sendmail thinks it should deliver it to, may provide a clue!

> I have noticed that when I add user accounts I get proper authentication required errors on the server. If I stop and start SMTP Auth this fixes the problem until I add another account.

Good point, I have never actually questioned this, since we started using BlueQuartz (and now BlueOnyx) 3ish years ago we have had to restart sendmail from the command line after creating a new site, just always took it as 'feature'! :-)

Thanks
Rob