Re: [courier-users] courier 0.49.0.20050405-1 Forwarding Not Working Anymore

[Steve Lange]

I actually run yum-update everyday and do have CentOS 4.2 installed (sorry for the confusion).  However, courier is not included in my list of updated packages, so that is why that is out-of-date.  I did what you suggested.  I ran the following: strings /etc/courier/aliases.dat and found that the .dat file did not match what I put in /etc/courier/aliases/forwards so I ran: rm /etc/courier/aliases.dat makealiases and then ran: strings /etc/courier/aliases.dat and the aliases.dat file is still not matching. I noticed that there are 23 lines of garbage before any of the email addreses start in the .dat file....I'm not sure if this is normal or not. Thanks, Steve   Jay Lee wrote: On Wed, February 8, 2006 2:04 pm, Steve Lange wrote: I've been running courier-0.49.0.20050405-1 on a CentOS 4.0 box for almost a year now and it's worked great. You are running a beta copy of Courier. While they are generally pretty stable and it may not relate to your problem, I strongly suggest you update to the latest stable release. It is an extremely easy process to upgrade if you are using RPM. You should upgrade courier-authlib RPMS first then Courier. Also, you should be installing the latest CentOS patches. CentOS 4 is currently at update 2, sometimes referred to as CentOS 4.2. These patches fix security issues and bugs. A quick: yum update should get you up to 4.2 + any further patches CentOS has released. I have been able to setup forwarding by editing the forwards file inside the aliases subdirectory of courier. After I make my changes in the forwards file, I run 'makealiases' and it doesn't give any errors, then I restart courier for the changes to take effect. This process worked up until a few weeks ago. Now when I add/edit/delete entries out of the forwards file and run 'makealiases' and restart courier, the changes don't take effect, the new forwards do not work, if I removed a forward, it is still active. Does anyone have any suggestions or has anyone seen this before? Thanks in advance for any help! Try running: strings /etc/courier/aliases.dat See if the changed email aliases are appearing. If the changes are not being reflected, there may be a problem with the file, try: rm /etc/courier/aliases.dat makealiases To recreate the file, then try the strings command again. If it's still no go, you may be making changes in the wrong place. You should be modifying any file in /etc/courier/aliases/ (if you didn't use RPM to build courier the path to etc may differ). What file are you editing? Jay -- Thank You, Steve Steve Lange Network Planning Analyst Michael Day Enterprises Phone: 330-336-7611 960 Seville Rd. Wadsworth, Ohio 44281 www.mdayinc.com