Hello everyone,

Some time back, there was discussion on this list about dbmail not
interacting well with the smtp server when relaying messages.  i.e.
messages not destined for a dbmail mailbox.

Eelco posted something about it here:

http://mailman.fastxs.nl/pipermail/dbmail/2002-February/000008.html

but I'm not sure how successful that was (i couldnt find a follow up on
the list archives).

Ive just tried version 1.0 (well done everyone) and I think its doing
the same thing.  Ive attached an instance of the maillog.

I sent something to from a local account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to
an address handled by dbmail on sobamax ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) which
forwards to an account on another machine
([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

It does reach its destination fine, however there is always a return
path as follows:

Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

which is ok unless of course there is a problem and the postmaster at
sobamax tries to warn the sender...

So is there now some way to get around this issue?

Cheers,

nik

-- 
Nik Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
=========begin sobamax maillog==============

Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax postfix/pickup[71810]: B1C2B15E71: uid=1001 from=<nik>
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax postfix/cleanup[72056]: B1C2B15E71: message-id=<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax postfix/qmgr[165]: B1C2B15E71: from=<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>, size=331, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): starting procedure
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): found [DBMAIL] tag
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): no value specified 
for service item [].
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): item [host] value 
[localhost] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): item [user] value 
[dbmailuser] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): item [pass] value 
[dbmailuserpassword] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): item [db] value 
[dbmail] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): no value specified 
for service item [].
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): item [TRACE_LEVEL] 
value [2] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): service [DBMAIL] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): config for [DBMAIL] 
read, found [5] items
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): starting procedure
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): found [SMTP] tag
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): item [SENDMAIL] value 
[/usr/sbin/sendmail] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): item 
[DBMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS] value [EMAIL PROTECTED] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): item [POSTMASTER] 
value [EMAIL PROTECTED] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): item [AUTO_NOTIFY] 
value [no] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): item [AUTO_REPLY] 
value [no] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): item [TRACE_LEVEL] 
value [2] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): service [SMTP] added
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: ReadConfig(): config for [SMTP] 
read, found [6] items
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: GetConfigValue(): searching value 
for config item [trace_level]
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax dbmail/smtp[72079]: GetConfigValue(): found value [2]
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax postfix/pickup[71810]: D4EA315E97: uid=4001 
from=<dbmail>
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax postfix/cleanup[72056]: D4EA315E97: message-id=<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax postfix/pipe[72057]: B1C2B15E71: to=<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>, relay=dbmail, delay=0, status=sent (nil.lam.id.au)
Dec  9 16:42:42 sobamax postfix/qmgr[165]: D4EA315E97: from=<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>, size=451, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Dec  9 16:42:46 sobamax postfix/smtp[72062]: D4EA315E97: to=<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>, relay=extrahome.dialix.com[216.14.192.249], delay=4, status=sent 
(250 2.0.0 gB95hWZ40721 Message accepted for delivery)


======================end maillog============

mysql>select * from aliases;
+------------+--------------------------------------+------------------------------+-------------+
| alias_idnr | alias                                | deliver_to                
   | client_idnr |
+------------+--------------------------------------+------------------------------+-------------+
|          1 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]                   | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |        
   0 |

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