[Dovecot] User Unknown Sendmail Error

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Scott Silva wrote:

> on 3-4-2008 4:22 PM Paul Roberts spake the following:
>> Sorry I wasn't clearer...when I send mail to that user from an external 
>> account (in this case my gmail account) I get the "user unknown" error from 
>> sendmail.
>> 
>> -Paul
>> 
> Still not a dovecot issue. It is your MTA that is at fault, or its 
> configuration.

To phrase Scott's answer differently:

sendmail does not use the Dovecot framework to authentificate or validate 
users (unfortunately). Therefore you have to configure sendmail to use the 
same user DB or forward (alias) your users via a special MDA line.

Bye.

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Steffen Kaiser
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