OT: Sendmail weirdness

[Julian Field]

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Chris Yuzik wrote:
> Sorry for posting a sendmail question here. I've asked on a forum and 
> on  usenet but haven't gotten a usable response yet, and the people on 
> this list tend to have "guru status" at almost everything server related.
>
> I recently discovered that our system (Centos 4.4, Sendmail, Procmail, 
> etc.) is ignoring users' .forward files even though they seem to be 
> correctly formatted. At first I thought it might be a permissions 
> issue, as I remember reading that if the permissions on the .forward 
> file, or the dir or any parent subdirs its contained in must not be 
> world writeable. The permissions are fine in all cases.
>
> Further investigation points to the format of the user accounts, in 
> that everyone's user account is in the format of "user at domain.tld" and 
> apparently sendmail doesn't process a .forward file if there is an "@" 
> in the account name.
So you have usernames in the passwd file that say "user at domain.tld"? How 
very odd.

>
> The following seems to indicate that the .forward file is not even 
> looked at.
>
> #sendmail -d27.2 -bv testuser at testdomain.com
> testuser at testdomain.com... deliverable: mailer local, user 
> testuser\@testdomain.com
How come your sendmail is resulting in a user that is not just 
"testuser"? Solve that, and everything will start to work. You must have 
something odd in your config to cause that to happen. How about you post 
us a few of the relevant lines from each of the text files in your 
/etc/mail directory (and your /etc/aliases).

Jules

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