Garry Glendown <ga...@glendown.de> wrote: > after trying everything I could think of and find on the web, I'm > totally stumped ... maybe someone give me some hints on what I'm doing > wrong, or where to look ... > > I have an ancient customer box with sendmail & cyrus imap, with imap > using an LDAP database of users (no locally configured users), all of > which is working fine. > > This machine needs to be replaced by a new installation, which - > regrettably - is supposed to use SLES 12. Which does not have any Cyrus > IMAP packages available anymore, so I had to use the Dovecot imap > instead. I've already got the LDAP auth working, as well as the imap > storage of mails (used imapsync to copy all of the old mailboxes to the > new machine), everything fine so far. > > Anyway, I'm running into problems getting sendmail to check whether a > recipient actually exists. Any local user is correctly identified, but > all virtual users are constantly rejected. I tried finding anything on > how sendmail actually does the user check ... on the cyrus install, all > I had to do is > > define(`confLOCAL_MAILER',`cyrusv2')dnl > define(`CYRUSV2_MAILER_ARGS',`FILE /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp')dnl > MAILER(cyrusv2)dnl > > and both user checks and local delivery worked. What's the appropriate > config entry in the .mc for dovecot? > > I tried settings like: > > FEATURE(`local_lmtp',`[IPC]',`FILE /var/run/dovecot/lmtp')dnl > > and used the dovecot.m4 file together with > > MAILER(`dovecot')dnl > > but couldn't see anything happening - or improve. > > Hints and help greatly appreciated!
Does you old sendmail config use FEATURE(`stickyhost')? [ It would explain working virtual addresses ] -- A. Filip
