On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:05:01PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Otto Solares writes:
> 
> >Hi!
> >
> >I'm running several servers with just courier-mta where
> >I have lots of users in /etc/passwd, in reality I don't
> >want to have any users for SMTP, so I empty the auth
> >modules list, now when I send to say [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >it fails with:
> >
> >556 Address unavailable.
> >
> >I have an alias with:
> >
> >postmaster: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >How can I tell courier to work without users?
> 
> For starters you need to make sure that your domain is recognized as a 
> local domain.  Just because you think it is, it doesn't make it so.  A 
> local domain must be explicitly defined in either the locals or the 
> hosteddomains configuration file.  See courier man page for the explanation 
> of each one.  See also courier-authlib's documentation.

Already done, locals, esmtpacceptmailfor and me files are the same.

> Once you've made the appropriate adjustments to your configuration, the 
> postmaster address will still temporarily remain undeliverable, due to 
> backscatter suppression.  556 is actually a backscatter suppression error. 
> See the courier man page for more information.

This was actually my problem, I disable backscatter suppression and now
I have a working courier-mta without any kind of users, just aliases to
remote domains.  courier rocks!

> Again, you should allocate about 2-3 hours for you to review and reread all 
> of the relevant courier-authlib documentation, and courier documentation. 
> You need to fully understand all the relevant processes, and how they work.
> But once you understand where all the moving pieces are, the actual 
> configuration changes should be fairly easy and obvious.

To be honest, I spend a lot of time on this, next time will check what
the actual error codes mean.  Thank you.

-otto

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