Virtual users(dovecot) authentication in sendmail

Dear Friends,
I am using rpm based Linux system (Centos) and I have configured
sendmail and dovecot server comes default with it. As per the config i
ve made it is working fine for system users.

To setup the mail server for virtual users I have downloaded dovecot
source from dovecot.org and compiled in a root shell and followed the
virtual user configuration for pain text authentication according to
the http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/SimpleVirtualInstall.

>From sendmail end I have add the mailer(dovecot) entry to the
sendmail.mc file, adding the content given the site http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail
and created the required dovecot.m4 file, created the sendmail.cf file
and started the sendmail + dovecot.

But I still get the user unknown error when mail client try to send a
mail to smtp sever (sendmail). Client gives error,
------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------
The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was
rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was
'abc@mydomain.com'. Subject 'test', Account: '192.168.1.1', Server:
'192.168.1.1', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '550 5.1.1 <
abc@mydomain.com k>... User unknown', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No,
Server Error: 550, Error Number: 0x800CCC79
------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------

But dovecot authentication is happening and mails are receiving when I
send mail from root shell is happening and dovecot.log and info.log
gives authentication ok for user abc.

When I check the maillog it says abc@mydomain.com as,
------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------
Oct 3 07:39:43 user1 sendmail[4173]: l9329hgq004173: <
abc@mydomain.com k >... User unknown
Oct 3 07:39:43 user1 sendmail[4173]: l9329hgq004173: from=<
abc@mydomain.com k >, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=[192.168.1.2]
------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------

What went wrong for sendmail? Pls give me necessary steps in at lease
point form do this sendmail config for virtual users?

Lasantha

Re: Virtual users(dovecot) authentication in sendmail

Lasantha wrote:
> Dear Friends,
> I am using rpm based Linux system (Centos) and I have configured
> sendmail and dovecot server comes default with it. As per the config i
> ve made it is working fine for system users.
>
> To setup the mail server for virtual users I have downloaded dovecot
> source from dovecot.org and compiled in a root shell and followed the
> virtual user configuration for pain text authentication according to
> the http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/SimpleVirtualInstall.
>
>>From sendmail end I have add the mailer(dovecot) entry to the
> sendmail.mc file, adding the content given the site http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail
> and created the required dovecot.m4 file, created the sendmail.cf file
> and started the sendmail + dovecot.
>
> But I still get the user unknown error when mail client try to send a
> mail to smtp sever (sendmail). Client gives error,
> ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------
> The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was
> rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was
> 'abc@mydomain.com'. Subject 'test', Account: '192.168.1.1', Server:
> '192.168.1.1', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '550 5.1.1 <
> abc@mydomain.com k>... User unknown', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No,
> Server Error: 550, Error Number: 0x800CCC79
> ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------
>
> But dovecot authentication is happening and mails are receiving when I
> send mail from root shell is happening and dovecot.log and info.log
> gives authentication ok for user abc.
>
> When I check the maillog it says abc@mydomain.com as,
> ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------
> Oct 3 07:39:43 user1 sendmail[4173]: l9329hgq004173: <
> abc@mydomain.com k >... User unknown
> Oct 3 07:39:43 user1 sendmail[4173]: l9329hgq004173: from=<
> abc@mydomain.com k >, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=[192.168.1.2]
> ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------
>
> What went wrong for sendmail? Pls give me necessary steps in at lease
> point form do this sendmail config for virtual users?
>
> Lasantha
>

Dovecot retrieves emails, it does not send any. If a user is not found its
because sendmail can't find the user as a local user or in the virtualuser list.