User unknown in virtual alias table
Jim Dickenson
dickenson at CFMC.COM
Wed Mar 9 14:56:24 GMT 2005
Have you tried sending email to <user>@mail2.trayerproducts.com and
<user>@mail4.trayerproducts.com to make sure that gets delivered correctly?
--
Jim Dickenson
mailto:dickenson at cfmc.com
CfMC
http://www.cfmc.com/
> From: Rodney Green <rgreen at TRAYERPRODUCTS.COM>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:02:33 -0500
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Subject: Re: User unknown in virtual alias table
>
> 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.
>> E-Mail: rgreen at trayerproducts.com
>> Phone: 607-734-8124 Ext. 343
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