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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
