[rancid] issues with email delivery

Delmiro Campelo delmiroc at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 13:15:21 UTC 2015


I believe the issue that I was having with postfix was because i had
configured relayhost= in main.cf.

Here is the postfix config which is working with rancid fine right now.
# cat /etc/postfix/main.cf | grep -v ^#
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
mail_owner = postfix
myhostname = vm-rancid.myrealdomain.net
mydomain = myrealdomain.net
myorigin = $myhostname
inet_interfaces = localhost
inet_protocols = all
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
debug_peer_level = 2
debugger_command =
         PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
         ddd $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
setgid_group = postdrop
html_directory = no
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.10.1/samples
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.10.1/README_FILES
smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic


I also wanted to change the way the email addresses appeared when email was
delivered from this box, I just this article and worked like a charm.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-postfix-masquerade-change-email-mail-address.html

Thanks,
Delmiro


On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Hussein, Sazzad <ete.sabuj at gmail.com> wrote:

> *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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