topic sendmail problem in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail problem

Ronelle van Niekerk — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:45:51 GMT

We can't seem to send mail to any of the users on the machine except root.

If root send a mail to the users, it gets a message back saying "User Unknown"

Any ideas?
I am sendmail illiterate.

Re: sendmail problem

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 00:17:17 GMT

sendmail is fun.

check the /etc/mail/aliases file for entries that would confuse sendmail.

try this diagnostic

sendmail -v -d8.99 -d38.99 username
type some text

.

you'll get a better idea whats wrong.

whence sendmail to get the full path in case you get a not found message.

mailq

shows mail waiting for delivery.

I bet you have a DS directive in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

That tells the server to relay all mail, but local users are still not supposed to go outside

Hmm. I'd like to see some diagnostic posts.

SEP

Re: sendmail problem

Mobeen_1 — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 01:17:34 GMT

Can u check and see if all your mails (that you tested ) can be seen in mailq.

Did you make any changes recently? If Yes, what changes.

regards
Mobeen

Re: sendmail problem

Ronelle van Niekerk — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:55:44 GMT

Thanks guys,

we ran the sendmail -v -d8.99 -d38.99 username command and it came up with something very interesting:

seq_map_lookup(aliases, sabpmgr)
seq_map_lookup(aliases.files, sabpmgr)
impl_map_lookup(Alias0, sabpmgr)
db_map_lookup(Alias0, sabpmgr)
sabPmgr... User unknown

The username is sabPmgr.
Can sendmail handle caps in user names?