Re: [webmin-l] Unexpected behaviour with Virtualmin.

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 9/Jan/2006 00:52 cw wrote ..
> > This may be a Virtualmin bug, if it has setup the sendmail aliases and
> > virtusers incorrectly somehow. What are the relevant entries in
> > /etc/mail/virtusertable and /etc/mail/aliases for the problem address
> > and the catchall? They should reveal how mail is really being
> > delivered..
> > 
> >  - Jamie
> 
> Cheers for the reply Jamie,
> 
> /etc/mail/aliases has is basically all the default FreeBSD stuff. I 
> suspect the problem is this line:
> 
> security:       root
> 
> root is redirected to the catchall for domaina.tld
> 
> The concern though is that I would expect this mailbox to be applied 
> only to messages addressed to the hostname of the server. I've tested a
> few other aliases defined in there and it would seem that anything 
> addressed to one of those aliases under *any* domain is redirected as 
> per /etc/mail/aliases unless it is explicitly defined in the domain as
> something else.
> 
> So is this expected behaviour? Personally I would have expected each 
> domain to be treated completely separately the aliases defined in 
> /etc/mail/aliases only to be applied to the server hostname which isn't
> even domaina.tld it is host.domaina.tld

Yes, this is expected behaviour. Sendmail aliases apply to all domains, whereas
virtuser entries apply to only one domain. This is why Virtualmin always creates
virtusers ... I am guessing this alias was created using Webmin's Sendmail module
(or manually).

 - Jamie