Re: Possible sendmail misconfiguration to deliver to cyrus

From: Todd Lyons (no email)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2006 - 13:24:46 EST

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    On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:22:10AM -0600, Dave McCracken wrote:

    >> As I see it, a more sendmailish solution would be to use a little
    >> sendmail-fu and make it so that sendmail checks for local user at smtp
    >> time, but delivers to cyrus at deliver time. I don't have such fu, but
    >> I see now as a good enough time to start studying up on it as well as
    >> exploring the above option.
    >I also had that problem since most of the spam I was getting to my domain was
    >to nonexistent users. I discovered sendmail has a local mailer flag that
    >indicates whether sendmail should check the recipient against local users at
    >smtp time. The flag is 'w'. My sendmail.mc has the following line:
    >define(`CYRUSV2_MAILER_FLAGS', `A@/:|mw')dnl
    >where cyrusv2.m4 has the line:
    >_DEFIFNOT(`CYRUSV2_MAILER_FLAGS', `A@/:|m')
    >This solved my problem but it requires that I have a local machine account for
    >each cyrus user. As a small domain that's not a problem for me, but others
    >might find it too restrictive.

    I'll test it. As long as by "local user" you mean "users visible to PAM
    and virtusers", then I'm golden. I'm beginning testing now.

    -- 
    Regards...		Todd
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    for the first time in hist life that it was _him_, being the color-blind.
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