[IMail Forum] "Nobody" problem

[Scott MacLean]

I know people have had problems with the "nobody" alias before, but being that I never have (until now), I have usually skimmed over those messages. :) That said, I am now having a problem. Here is my problem:

Domain A, dogphone.com, is set up with a "nobody" alias, which is a Program type alias.
Domain B, nerosoft.com, is my domain.
Both domains are running on the same IMail server.

My mail client, by default, uses nerosoft.com for all outgoing SMTP connections. Let's say I write a message:

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Test

This message is sent by my mail client by connecting to port 25 on nerosoft.com. IMail accepts the message, but it can't deliver it. According to the log below, it thinks that "nerosoft.com" is not local, and therefore can't deliver "nobody" to it.

20001124 232430 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (1D420238) [216.13.3.194] connect 216.13.3.194 port 2603
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (2652025E) [24.66.26.122] EHLO dante.nerosoft.com
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (2652025E) [24.66.26.122] MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (2652025E) [24.66.26.122] RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (2652025E) [24.66.26.122] C:\IMail\spool\D3f0425e.SMD 633
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1       SMTP (3036) processing C:\IMail\spool\Q3f0425e.SMD
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1       SMTP (3036) ERR nerosoft.com not local nobody from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1       SMTP (3036) Creating message from Postmaster
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1       SMTP (3036) finished C:\IMail\spool\Q3f0425e.SMD status=2

Incidentally, in the second-from-last line above, it says "Creating message from Postmaster" - which it indeed does, but this message sits in the C:\IMail\spool directory for a good long time (up to an hour) before it is ever delivered back to me.

OK, so my suspicion is that it has something to do with the HOSTS file, and a missing entry, although I've tried putting nerosoft.com, mail.nerosoft.com, dogphone.com and mail.dogphone.com into it, both with the actual IPs and with 127.0.0.1 with no luck. Interestingly enough, this seems to affect the NOBODY alias only - all other users work just fine.

Changing my mail client to use mail.dogphone.com for outgoing SMTP connections fixes the problem - for the dogphone.com domain, anyway. That's obviously not an acceptable solution.

I'm sure there's something simple I'm missing. Anyone care to offer some insight?

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Scott MacLean
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 9184011
http://www.nerosoft.com