Solaris sendmail not paying attention to virtusertable
I'm on Solaris 5.11 running sendmail. Local usernames are of the form <letters><numbers> (e.g. hn06511). In the past we used aliases to make point to <username>@olddomain.com.
Code:
<username> <username>@olddomain.com
Now there's a new email address scheme and a new domain. Now email addresses are of the form <firstname>.<lastname>@newdomain.com.
So I changed the aliases to be:
Code:
<username> <firstname>.<lastname>@newdomain.com
This works, however <username>@olddomain.com no longer works. To add insult to injury, there are many scripts with hardcoded email addresses to the old style.
So I want to change <username>@olddomain.com -> <firstname><lastname>@newdomain.com. I thought I could use virtusertables to accomplish this so I made a virtusertable that contains:
Code:
@olddomain.com %1
Supposedly that should take <anybody>@olddomain.com and route it to just the username (%1). I hoped that then the aliases I have defined would translate <username> -> <firstname>.<lastname>@newdomain.com. But as far as I can see sendmail is ignoring this virtusertable completely and attempting delivery to <username>@olddomain.com and, of course, failing.
AFAICT I formated the virtusertable properly and ran makemap (should I be using dbm or hash? I've seen both). AFAICT I have put in the proper FEATURE and done the make and made sure the generated sendmail.cf is in the proper place. I've seen FEATURE expressed as both
Did you recreate sendmail.cf with the m4/make command, according to the README in /usr/lib/mail?
Also you need to create the binary index files for the virtusertable.
The commands mught hide in /usr/ccs/bin; put that into the PATH.
newaliases is not the answer. If I put %lt;username>@newdomain.com newaliases complains that it's not a local email address.
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Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
Did you recreate sendmail.cf with the m4/make command, according to the README in /usr/lib/mail?
Also you need to create the binary index files for the virtusertable.
The commands mught hide in /usr/ccs/bin; put that into the PATH.
Yes, I used make. Yes I created the maps for virtusertable.db.
Not sure what you mean by commands hiding in /usr/ccs/bin. What commands? Who needs to know about them?
What the hell is wrong with this site not allowing email addresses or URLs?!? Why oh why?!? How can you ask a question about sendmail without email addresses or references?!?
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Upping my post count...
What the hell is wrong with this site not allowing email addresses or URLs?!? Why oh why?!? How can you ask a question about sendmail without email addresses or references?!?
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One more!
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What the hell is wrong with this site not allowing email addresses or URLs?!? Why oh why?!? How can you ask a question about sendmail without email addresses or references?!?
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Originally Posted by defaria
Don't know about differences with 10 and 11. I do know the make succeeds.
Another reply...
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Why isn't this upping my post count?
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More craziness. It seems that sendmail/virtusertable on Solaris does not act like sendmail/virtusertable on other systems. Specifically it never matches a "@domain" LHS and does not expand %1 to the username. I've seen many pages on the Internet say that if you have something like "@example.com %1@my-isp.com" then an email address such as user@example.com would be translated to user@my-isp.com. But this doesn't happen.
virtusertable A domain-specific form of aliasing, allowing multiple virtual domains to be hosted on one machine. For example, if the virtuser table contained:info@foo.com foo-info info@bar.com bar-info joe@bar.com error:nouser 550 No such user here jax@bar.com error:5.7.0:550 Address invalid @baz.org jane@example.net then mail addressed to info@foo.com will be sent to the address foo-info, mail addressed to info@bar.com will be delivered to bar-info, and mail addressed to anyone@baz.org will be sent to jane@example.net, mail to joe!bar.com will be rejected with the specified error message, and mail to jax@bar.com will also have a RFC 1893 compliant error code 5.7.0.
The username from the original address is passed as %1 allowing:
@foo.org %1@example.com meaning someone@foo.org will be sent to someone@example.com.
I've configured my virtusertable largely like the above:
Code:
info@foo.com foo-info
info@bar.com bar-info
joe@bar.com error:nouser 550 No such user here
jax@bar.com error:5.7.0:550 Address invalid
foobar@foo.com %1@foobar.com
@baz.org jane@example.net
Next I ran sendmail -bt to test these entries:
Code:
sendmail -bt
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> /map virtuser info@foo.com
map_lookup: virtuser (info@foo.com) returns foo-info (0)
> /map virtuser info@bar.com
map_lookup: virtuser (info@bar.com) returns bar-info (0)
> /map virtuser joe@bar.com
map_lookup: virtuser (joe@bar.com) returns error:nouser 550 No such user here (0)
> /map virtuser jax@bar.com
map_lookup: virtuser (jax@bar.com) returns error:5.7.0:550 Address invalid (0)
> /map virtuser foobar@foo.com
map_lookup: virtuser (foobar@foo.com) returns @foobar.com (0)
> /map virtuser user@baz.org
map_lookup: virtuser (user@baz.org) no match (0)
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So I am looking up stuff in /etc/mail/virtusertable (virtusertable.db?) however the last two maps failed. For foobar@foo.com the "%1" is not being expanded properly and for the user@baz.org sendmail doesn't even match. Why is this? This directly contradicts the documentation which says that "The username from the original address is passed as %1". That's not happening.
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