Are you sure.
Sendmail must be running or the primary email accounts would be receive email.
Only alias email accounts are bouncing
Correct?
Steve
coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 at 11:39 AM +0000 wrote:
>This is a known bug, you need to restart sendmail manually after adding
>domain-aliases....
>I was looking into this before I traveled to the BQ conference in August,
>but have been swamped since my return.
>Strange thing is that the handler actually lists that it restarts sendmail,
>but somehow that does not happen.
>
>Taco
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Davis" <steve (at mark) zio.com>
>To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:09 PM
>Subject: [coba-e:07390] Re: Programming the BQ ui
>
>
>> coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org writes:
>>>> dig is not a very good tool to use for MX, or never has been
>>>> to me. I think that part is still under development.
>>>>
>>>> Try this at a command or unix prompt.
>>>>
>>>> c:\>nslookup
>>>> Default Server: outgoing.nsa.lab
>>>> Address: 10.0.0.5
>>>>
>>>> > set type=mx
>>>> > zio.com
>>>> Server: outgoing.nsa.lab
>>>> Address: 10.0.0.5
>>>
>>>Yuk! That looks like Windoze stuff!!!
>>>You should login to a shell on a linux server and run 'dig'
>>>nslookup has been obsolete for a few years!
>>>
>>>> zio.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = ibm1.zio.com
>>>> ibm1.zio.com internet address = 216.207.242.153
>>>>
>>>> And yes, zio.com is the mail address i use to test this with,
>>>> and is the BQ server I am having trouble with.
>>>
>>>Looks Ok from here!!!
>>>See below, and check to see if all the output is correct...
>>>
>>>[root (at mark) demo ~]# dig zio.com MX
>>>; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> zio.com MX
>>>;; global options: printcmd
>>>;; Got answer:
>>>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6724
>>>;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3
>>>
>>>;; QUESTION SECTION:
>>>;zio.com. IN MX
>>>
>>>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>>>zio.com. 3600 IN MX 10 ibm1.zio.com.
>>>
>>>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>>>zio.com. 22288 IN NS dns1.telepresence.net.
>>>zio.com. 22288 IN NS dns2.telepresence.net.
>>>
>>>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>>>ibm1.zio.com. 3600 IN A 216.207.242.153
>>>dns1.telepresence.net. 22289 IN A 63.108.129.91
>>>dns2.telepresence.net. 22289 IN A 65.162.107.91
>>>
>>>;; Query time: 393 msec
>>>;; SERVER: 216.130.255.11#53(216.130.255.11)
>>>;; WHEN: Tue Oct 3 02:26:52 2006
>>>;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 148
>>>
>> Yes, that all look right. ibm1.zio.com is the BQ server. And the MX for
>> the domain
>> zio.com.
>>>
>>
>> The issue is not BIND or DNS, I promise. There is some thing within BQ
>> sendmail that
>> simply cannot verify the name of the incoming alias email address against
>> the database
>> that lives in the sendmail configuration files. This was caused by either
>> loading
>> mailscanner, clamav or other packages or the import of these Raq550
>> domains. I thought I
>> had it figured out a while ago, but i have replicated the steps below on 6
>> clean installs
>> and the corrupt behavior continues each time.
>>
>> Instal Nuonce 4.5 or 4.3 or 4.2 ISO.
>> Load Nuonce ClamAV, MailScanner, SpamAssassion, WebMail, and PHPMyAdmin
>> Import Raq550 2.53 sites.
>>
>> I can do these in different order, but the outcome is always the same, all
>> alias email
>> will bounce.
>>
>> Steve
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----------------------------------
>> Stephen Davis
>> 1519 Toney Drive
>> Huntsville Alabama 35802
>> Office 256.534.7327
>> -----------------------------------
>> When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
>> Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice
>>
>>
>>
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Stephen Davis
1519 Toney Drive
Huntsville Alabama 35802
Office 256.534.7327
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice