[rancid] issues with email delivery

Hussein, Sazzad ete.sabuj at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 07:54:26 UTC 2015 

*Hi Demiro,*

I was experiencing same problem as you were.
Could you please share the document which you are following for integrating
rancid?

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 07/06/2015 18:36, Delmiro Campelo wrote:
> > Hi Alan, and thank you for helping with this. I was able to get it
> > working again by uninstalling postfix and reinstalling it.
>
> Drastic method. You likely "fixed" the problem by causing newaliases to
> be run.
>
> > One more
> > question, how does rancid find mail server to send the email to ? is it
> > based on MX record for the email address specified in the aliases?
>
> That is not a rancid question. It is 100% an email question.
>
> Seeing as it's coming up often nowadays, I'll answer it.
>
> Rancid does not find any mail server at all. It composes the mail and
> hands it over to the local MTA (mail transfer agent) which in your case
> is Postfix. Rancid's job is to compose a mail, Postfix's job is to get
> that mail delivered.
>
> Postfix looks up the MX records of the *domain* in each mail address,
> and tries to deliver the mails to each server in that list in turn using
> SMTP. How it does this is fully described in many quality articles on
> the internet.
>
> http://www.postfix.org has excellent documentation on all aspects of SMTP
>
>
>
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Delmiro
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com
> > <mailto:alan.mckinnon at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 07/06/2015 03:28, Delmiro Campelo wrote:
> >     > Hello guys,
> >     >
> >     > I'm hoping that you can give me some ideas here. I'm in the
> process of
> >     > installing rancid and I thought I had it working but for some
> >     reason my
> >     > emails are sent to the wrong email address,
> >     > rancid-networking at realdomain.net
> >     <mailto:rancid-networking at realdomain.net>
> >     > <mailto:rancid-networking at realdomain.net
> >     <mailto:rancid-networking at realdomain.net>> is not valid and not
> what I
> >     > have specified in my aliases, I'm stuck on this :( how can I fix
> >     it ? i
> >     > need them to go to myemail at realdomain.net
> >     <mailto:myemail at realdomain.net> <mailto:myemail at realdomain.net
> >     <mailto:myemail at realdomain.net>>.
> >     >
> >     > I'm used this article as the guide to help me set it up
> >     >
> >
> http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch1_:_Network_Backups_With_Rancid#.VXNW70anFjY
> ,
> >     > please see below, and thank you for any help you can provide.
> >     >
> >     >
> >
>  **************************************************************************
> >     > rancid.conf file:
> >     > #
> >     > LIST_OF_GROUPS="networking"
> >     >
> >     > Aliases file:
> >     > /etc/aliases
> >     > # Rancid email addresses
> >     > #
> >     > rancid-networking:              myemail at realdomain.net
> >     <mailto:myemail at realdomain.net>
> >     > <mailto:myemail at realdomain.net <mailto:myemail at realdomain.net>>
> >     > rancid-admin-networking:        myemail at realdomain.net
> >     <mailto:myemail at realdomain.net>
> >     > <mailto:myemail at realdomain.net <mailto:myemail at realdomain.net>>
> >     >
> >     > PostFix log below:
> >     > Jun  6 20:00:17 vm-rancid postfix/qmgr[2246]: 400828034349: removed
> >     > Jun  6 20:00:35 vm-rancid postfix/pickup[2245]: 0464D8034349:
> uid=1001
> >     > from=<rancid>
> >     > Jun  6 20:00:35 vm-rancid postfix/cleanup[2302]: 0464D8034349:
> >     > message-id=<20150607010035.0464D8034349 at vm-rancid.realdomain.net
> >     <mailto:20150607010035.0464D8034349 at vm-rancid.realdomain.net>
> >     > <mailto:20150607010035.0464D8034349 at vm-rancid.realdomain.net
> >     <mailto:20150607010035.0464D8034349 at vm-rancid.realdomain.net>>>
> >     > Jun  6 20:00:35 vm-rancid postfix/qmgr[2246]: 0464D8034349:
> >     > from=<rancid at realdomain.net <mailto:rancid at realdomain.net>
> >     <mailto:rancid at realdomain.net <mailto:rancid at realdomain.net>>>,
> >     size=2360,
> >     > nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> >     > Jun  6 20:00:35 vm-rancid postfix/smtp[2309]: 0464D8034349:
> >     > to=<rancid-networking at realdomain.net
> >     <mailto:rancid-networking at realdomain.net>
> >     > <mailto:rancid-networking at realdomain.net
> >     <mailto:rancid-networking at realdomain.net>>>,
> >     orig_to=<rancid-networking>,
> >     > relay=mail.realdomain.net <http://mail.realdomain.net>
> >     <http://mail.realdomain.net>[10.2.11.22]:25,
> >     > delay=0.32, delays=0.01/0/0.01/0.3, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250
> 2.6.0
> >     > <20150607010035.0464D8034349 at vm-rancid.realdomain.net
> >     <mailto:20150607010035.0464D8034349 at vm-rancid.realdomain.net>
> >     > <mailto:20150607010035.0464D8034349 at vm-rancid.realdomain.net
> >     <mailto:20150607010035.0464D8034349 at vm-rancid.realdomain.net>>>
> >     > [InternalId=7366618] Queued mail for delivery)
> >     > Jun  6 20:00:35 vm-rancid postfix/qmgr[2246]: 0464D8034349: removed
> >
> >
> >     That howto looks like something from Joe Random Blogger. It's
> suspect.
> >     It also references rancid 2.3.2, which is ancient.
> >
> >     Current version is 3.2, and the first problem you are going to run
> into
> >     is the change in format of router.db
> >
> >     Don't use that howto.
> >
> >     Install rancid using any normal method (rpm, yum, tarball - the
> method
> >     does not matter) and then follow the text files supplied by rancid
> >     itself.
> >
> >     Have you run newaliases since editing /etc/aliases?
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Alan McKinnon
> >     alan.mckinnon at gmail.com <mailto:alan.mckinnon at gmail.com>
> >
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>
>
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