User unknown in virtual alias table
Rodney Green
rgreen at TRAYERPRODUCTS.COM
Wed Mar 9 14:24:35 GMT 2005
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Thanks for you help Martin.
Martin Hepworth wrote:
> Rodney
>
> I'm no postfix person so I declined to answer from this point as I had
> little to contribute, but i guess the workaround is to fully specify the
> forward email address.. :-(
>
>
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Rodney Green wrote:
>
>> Martin,
>>
>> Any ideas on what the problem might be?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Rodney
>>
>> Rodney Green wrote:
>>
>>> Martin,
>>>
>>> The MX record resolves to mail2.trayerproducts.com.
>>> mail2.trayerproducts.com resolves to the same IP address as
>>> mail4.trayerproducts.com. Really odd that it's bouncing mail to my
>>> address when it's delivered normally when it's not spam. I just don't
>>> get it.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>> Rodney
>>>
>>>
>>> Martin Hepworth wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rodney
>>>>
>>>> what does the MS machine think the MX record for trayerproducts.com is?
>>>> It looks like its routing the forward to itself, and not finding
>>>> rgreen at trayerproducts.com and producing the bounce then.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Martin Hepworth
>>>> Snr Systems Administrator
>>>> Solid State Logic
>>>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rodney Green wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Martin, Derek,
>>>>>
>>>>> I did suspect that maybe there was a problem with the forward I use in
>>>>> the spam and high scoring spam actions. I simply used my e-mail
>>>>> address,
>>>>> rgreen at trayerproducts.com. I just did a test by setting the actions to
>>>>> deliver and the bounce problem went away. I just set the action to
>>>>> forward again and this time I modified my e-mail address to be
>>>>> rgreen at mail4.trayerproducts.com and it's working okay now. Here are my
>>>>> logs (below message), and they do show that it is a postfix problem.
>>>>> Any
>>>>> ideas on what I might have configured incorrectly?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>>> Rod
>>>>>
>>>>> Mar 8 08:43:50 proxy MailScanner[16793]: Message 97DF93132C.95381
>>>>> from
>>>>> 206.190.38.213 (reason1000 at yahoo.com) to
>>>>> trayerproducts.com,mail4.trayerproducts.com is spam, SpamAssassin
>>>>> (score=997.401, required 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -2.60, GTUBE
>>>>> 1000.00)
>>>>> Mar 8 08:43:52 proxy MailScanner[16793]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam
>>>>> messages
>>>>> Mar 8 08:43:52 proxy MailScanner[16793]: Spam Actions: message
>>>>> 97DF93132C.95381 actions are store,forward,rgreen at trayerproducts.com
>>>>> Mar 8 08:43:52 proxy MailScanner[16793]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>>>>> Starting
>>>>> Mar 8 08:43:52 proxy MailScanner[16793]: Requeue: 97DF93132C.95381 to
>>>>> 832783132D
>>>>> Mar 8 08:43:52 proxy postfix/qmgr[16765]: 832783132D:
>>>>> from=<reason1000 at yahoo.com>, size=1640, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>>>>> Mar 8 08:43:53 proxy MailScanner[16793]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
>>>>> messages
>>>>> Mar 8 08:43:53 proxy postfix/error[17012]: 832783132D:
>>>>> to=<rgreen at trayerproducts.com>, orig_to=<unknown>, relay=none,
>>>>> delay=6,
>>>>> status=bounced (user unknown in virtual alias table)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin Hepworth wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Rodney
>>>>>>
>>>>>> anything in the log files for this test message? Like is MS
>>>>>> processing
>>>>>> it at all or is PF rejecting it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Martin Hepworth
>>>>>> Snr Systems Administrator
>>>>>> Solid State Logic
>>>>>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rodney Green wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> MailScanner 4.37.7-1
>>>>>>> SpamAssassin 3.0.2
>>>>>>> Postfix 2.0.20
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've just moved mail services from a server running older
>>>>>>> versions of
>>>>>>> the above software to the newer versions listed. In testing, I've
>>>>>>> noticed something that seems odd to me. When I send a message to my
>>>>>>> address from yahoo with the gtube spam testing string, my mail
>>>>>>> server
>>>>>>> sends back an error message saying "user unknown in virtual alias
>>>>>>> table." The user (myself) is definitely in the virtual alias table
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> receiving mail just fine. When I send normal mail from my yahoo
>>>>>>> account
>>>>>>> it is delivered without any problems.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyone have any idea what's happening here? Is there some kind of
>>>>>>> feature in MS or SA that is sending back a "user unknown" error to
>>>>>>> trick
>>>>>>> spammers into taking the address of their list?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>> Rod
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>>>>> --
>>>>> Rodney Green
>>>>> Network/Security Administrator
>>>>> Trayer Products, Inc.
>>>>> E-Mail: rgreen at trayerproducts.com
>>>>> Phone: 607-734-8124 Ext. 343
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>>> Rodney Green
>>> Network/Security Administrator
>>> Trayer Products, Inc.
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>>> Phone: 607-734-8124 Ext. 343
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>> Rodney Green
>> Network/Security Administrator
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>> E-Mail: rgreen at trayerproducts.com
>> Phone: 607-734-8124 Ext. 343
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Rodney Green
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Trayer Products, Inc.
E-Mail: rgreen at trayerproducts.com
Phone: 607-734-8124 Ext. 343
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