[Dovecot] User Unknown Sendmail Error
I am totally stumped here. I have setup a dovecot user and I can telnet to port 110 and login no problem with that user. When I try to send mail I get an error from sendmail: Mar 4 13:39:56 flashyhome sendmail[5014]: m24JdtGp005014: <paul@fleeky.com>... User unknown
Now apparenly I need to setup the sendmail.mc file...which I have:
MAILER(smtp)dnl MAILER(procmail)dnl MAILER(dovecot)
And:
more /usr/share/sendmail-cf/mailer/dovecot.m4 ######################*****##############
DOVECOT Mailer specification
##################*****################## Mdovecot, P=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver, F=DFMPhnu9, S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=deliver -d $u
If anyone can give me any advice on what I need to do it would be much appreciated. Thanks so much in advance!
-Paul
Paul Roberts wrote:
I am totally stumped here. I have setup a dovecot user and I can telnet to port 110 and login no problem with that user. When I try to send mail I get an error from sendmail: Mar 4 13:39:56 flashyhome sendmail[5014]: m24JdtGp005014: <paul@fleeky.com>... User unknown
"When I try to send mail I get an error from sendmail"
dovecot _is not_ sendmail.... your MX setup is separate thing. check your MX setup or at least provide your "sendmail": (postfix, sendmai,l exim?) config.
Uldis
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
On Mar 4, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Uldis Pakuls <neko@it4u.lv> wrote:
Paul Roberts wrote:
I am totally stumped here. I have setup a dovecot user and I can
telnet to port 110 and login no problem with that user. When I try to send
mail I get an error from sendmail: Mar 4 13:39:56 flashyhome sendmail[5014]: m24JdtGp005014: <paul@fleeky.com... User unknown
"When I try to send mail I get an error from sendmail"
dovecot _is not_ sendmail.... your MX setup is separate thing. check
your MX setup or at least provide your "sendmail": (postfix,
sendmai,l exim?) config.Uldis
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.
-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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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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