[BlueOnyx:10791] Re: Sendmail access bug ?

[Charles Bowman]

Hi Frank,
I came across the same issue 2 weeks ago - mailing list 10685.


On 14 June 2012 09:40, Frank Soyer <fsoyer at systea.net> wrote:

> Dear list,
> I wonder if I have not found a bug in sendmail management.
>
> Here is the story: a customer tell me that he can't send emails.
> Verifying the logs, I see that sendmail says "user unknown..." for the
> SENDER of these emails.
> In the GUI, for that virtualhost, the mails are disabled (managed
> directly by a FAI), and no alias for this domain (say "domain.com" for
> example) exists, in any virtualhost, on this server.
> So sendmail should NOT consider that it must verify anything for this
> domain, right ? But it do.
>
> What I find : the virtualhost was renamed, from dev.domain.com, to
> www.domain.com.
> When it was "dev", an alias "domain.com" exists on that virtualhost
> (but, the emails was disabled). Then it was renamed to "www", and THEN
> the domain mail alias was removed.
>
> In /etc/mail/access (and access.db, thus) the reference to "dev" was
> still here ! In a block "### Start Block Email for Virtual Site:
> dev.domain.com ###" containing "dev.domain.com" AND "domain.com".
> A new reference to "www.domain.com" was added in a new block "Start
> Block Email.....", but only with "www.domain.com" in it (I suppose that
> "domain.com" was here too but deleted when the mail alias was removed in
> the GUI in the vhost www.domain.com).
>
> Removing the bloc referencing "dev" and recompiling the access.db has
> resolved the problem. But not sure that BlueOnyx will not rebuild the
> access file with this old vhost ? It's a server in production
> (e-commerce) and it's difficult to test it for now.
>
> What do you think about that ?
>
> Frank
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