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Old 01-10-2006
sendmail aliases not being honored
Running sendmail Version 8.12.10+Sun on Solaris 9.

I need to send mail from this server (serverA) to the mail server (Mserver), which will relay the message to the correct user. If I specify the user specifically, as in:
Code:
mailx -s"test" John.Doe@company.com
test
.

It works perfectly and the message is delivered. But if I try to use an alias, sendmail never expands the alias and just tries to send the mail as the alias. For example, in /etc/mail/aliases I have an entry that says:

Quote:
root: John.Doe@company.com,Jim.Bob@company.com
But it gets sent out like this:

Quote:
serverA:/etc/mail# root... Connecting to Mserver.company.com. via relay...
220 Mserver.company.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.3+Sun/8.13.3; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:19:50 -0500 (EST)
>>> EHLO Mserver.company.com
250-Mserver.company.com Hello serverA.company.com [192.168.0.4], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 10485760
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> MAIL From:<Jim@serverA.company.com> SIZE=53
250 2.1.0 <Jim@serverA.company.com>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<root@serverA.company.com>
>>> DATA
550 5.7.1 <root@serverA.company.com>... Relaying denied
503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)
>>> RSET
250 2.0.0 Reset state
# 2  
Old 01-10-2006
Probably you have already doen this, but did you remember to rebuild the alias database after updating the aliases file?
# 3  
Old 01-10-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by reborg
Probably you have already doen this, but did you remember to rebuild the alias database after updating the aliases file?
Yes, I have run newaliases.
# 4  
Old 01-11-2006
Check your access database (/etc/mail/access*) - you probably have to 'tell' sendmail you will accept mail from serverA. You can verify this by running the same command you posted and use harrypotter@notrealdomain.com as the rcpt (I doubt that is in your /etc/mail/access file since it isn't a real domain)

From some old notes I have, you would update the /etc/mail/access file, then run makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access to build the /etc/mail/access.db. Then restart sendmail. This would be done on your Mserver.
Last edited by RTM; 01-11-2006 at 06:38 AM..
# 5  
Old 01-11-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by RTM
Check your access database (/etc/mail/access*) - you probably have to 'tell' sendmail you will accept mail from serverA. You can verify this by running the same command you posted and use harrypotter@notrealdomain.com as the rcpt (I doubt that is in your /etc/mail/access file since it isn't a real domain)

From some old notes I have, you would update the /etc/mail/access file, then run makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access to build the /etc/mail/access.db. Then restart sendmail. This would be done on your Mserver.
I dont have access to the mail relay server. But I do know that it accepts email from my server (serverA), because if I send an email to a specific address, such as John.Doe@company.com, it works. The only problem is the aliases. My server doesnt honor aliases and instead tries to send to Mserver as root@company.com.
# 6  
Old 01-11-2006
One update:

Code:
 /usr/lib/sendmail -bv root
root... deliverable: mailer relay, host Mserver.company.com, user root@Mserver.company.com

So I can see that the problem is on my machine, serverA. I just can't figure out why the aliases wont work.
# 7  
Old 01-11-2006
What does "ls -l /etc/mail/alias* /usr/lib/sendmail" give you?
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