I have a small problem with sendmail.
I have a number of students working on the configuration of some Fedora
systems as part of an MSc course we run. One of them has an interesting
problem I can't fathom out at all. When he sends a mail meesage to a
local user he has created sendmail returns the error dsn=5.1.1,
stat=User unknown. (we use command line mail to send the email) When I
create a user on the same box and send a mail there is no problem. I am
not sure how the student created the user but I think it was with a
command like this : useradd -c 'works clerk--Jenny Rawring' -d
/workspace/home/Jenny/Jenny -s /bin/bash Jenny.
You can su to the user, login from outside and send a mail from the user
to root, I can't find anything in the passwd etc. files that looks out
of place.
Does anyone know anything I may have missed.
Many thanks,
Neil.
Extract of maillog at loglevel 64 :
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: NOQUEUE: connect from
localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: AUTH: available mech=LOGIN
DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 ANONYMOUS PLAIN, allowed mech=EXTERNAL GSSAPI
KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: Milter: no
active filter
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: --- 220
yoxford.adastral.ucl.ac.uk ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Wed, 7 Dec 2005
12:03:32 GMT
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: <-- EHLO
yoxford.adastral.ucl.ac.uk
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: ---
250-yoxford.adastral.ucl.ac.uk Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1],
pleased to meet you
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: ---
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: --- 250-PIPELINING
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: --- 250-8BITMIME
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: --- 250-SIZE
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: --- 250-DSN
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: --- 250-AUTH
DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: --- 250-DELIVERBY
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: --- 250 HELP
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: <-- MAIL
From:<root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> SIZE=31
AUTH=root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: ruleset=trust_auth,
arg1=root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, relay=localhost.localdomain
[127.0.0.1], reject=550 5.7.1 <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... not
authenticated
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: --- 250 2.1.0
<root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Sender ok
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: <-- RCPT
To:<Arthur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: --- 250 2.1.5
<Arthur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Recipient ok
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: <-- DATA
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: --- 354 Enter
mail, end with "." on a line by itself
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614:
from=<root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, size=353, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200512071203.jB7C3WxS031613@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W14031614: --- 250 2.0.0
jB7C3W14031614 Message accepted for delivery
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31613]: jB7C3WxS031613: to=Arthur,
ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
pri=30031, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
(jB7C3W14031614 Message accepted for delivery)
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W15031614: <-- QUIT
Dec 7 12:03:32 yoxford sendmail[31614]: jB7C3W15031614: --- 221 2.0.0
yoxford.adastral.ucl.ac.uk closing connection
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford MailScanner[31579]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 906 bytes
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford MailScanner[31579]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford MailScanner[31579]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31618]: STARTTLS: ClientCertFile missing
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31618]: STARTTLS: ClientKeyFile missing
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31618]: STARTTLS: CACertPath missing
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31618]: STARTTLS: CACertFile missing
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31618]: STARTTLS: CRLFile missing
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31618]: STARTTLS=client, init=1
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31619]: jB7C3W14031614: alias
<Arthur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> => Arthur
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31619]: jB7C3W14031614: alias Arthur =>
Arthur
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31619]: jB7C3W14031614: to=Arthur,
ctladdr=<Arthur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (8/0), delay=00:00:01,
mailer=local, pri=120353, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31619]: jB7C3W14031614:
to=<Arthur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, delay=00:00:01, mailer=local,
pri=120353, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31619]: jB7C3W14031614: jB7C3XMc031619:
DSN: User unknown
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31619]: jB7C3XMc031619:
to=<root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=local, pri=31915, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31619]: jB7C3XMc031619: done;
delay=00:00:00, ntries=1
Dec 7 12:03:33 yoxford sendmail[31619]: jB7C3W14031614: done;
delay=00:00:01, ntries=1
--
Neil Marjoram
Systems Manager
Adastral Park Campus
University College London
Ross Building
Adastral Park
Martlesham Heath
Ipswich - Suffolk
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