Re: Dovecot user lookup from sendmail

Garry Glendown garry@glendown.de writes:

Anyway, I'm running into problems getting sendmail to check whether a recipient actually exists. Any local user is correctly identified, but all virtual users are constantly rejected. I tried finding anything on how sendmail actually does the user check ... on the cyrus install, all I had to do is

define(confLOCAL_MAILER',cyrusv2')dnl define(CYRUSV2_MAILER_ARGS',FILE /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp')dnl MAILER(cyrusv2)dnl

It's unclear what you mean when you say "problems getting sendmail to check whether a recipient actually exists". Are you saying

1) During SMTP delivery, sendmail complains a user is unknown?

	RCPT TO:<user@domain>
	550 5.1.1 <user@domain>... User unknown

In this case, it has nothing to do with dovecot.  You'll
have to check your sendmail configs on user map lookups.

2) The LMTP can't deliver to a user's INBOX?  If this is what
you're complaining about, you ought to supply

	i) log entries demonstrating the problem
	ii) a hint of your configuration i.e. doveconf -n

Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com