Steve Lewis writes:
> I RTFMP and RTFFAQ, and followed the directions there:
> add starfire.worlddomination.net:nepolon-starfire to virtualhosts
> add starfire.worlddomination.net to rcpthosts
> kill -HUP the qmail-send proc
Correct (except that ``virtualhosts'' should be ``virtualdomains'').
> But, I had to create a .qmail-starfire-default before local-local mail
> to the virtdomain would work. Otherwise I was getting:
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
That's the way it goes. It is documented in the manpages
qmail-send(8) and dot-qmail(5).
> And this is the crux of _my_ problem (with virtual domains). Local
> delivery can be made to work, but if the mail comes from the outside it
> doesn't recognise the destination as a virtual host. Is this because the
> DNS record for starfire.worlddomination.net is a CNAME of
> worlddomination.net rather than another record?
Yes. See http://cr.yp.to/im/cname.html for the explanation.
You may want to replace the CNAME record with an MX record
(or an A record).
> Very wrong. We have no user 'nonexistant' ... where is the bounce? This
> can make it rather difficult to find the message I sent to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The log indicates that the recipient address in question is
controlled by the dot-qmail file that contains comments only.
Most likely the controlling dot-qmail file is ~alias/.qmail-default.
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Tetsu Ushijima
