[rancid] Email notification problems.

[Chris Davis]

What it comes down to is that the mxhost (outside) for that domain is going away.  This message is being generated inside.  I could spend a lot of time rewriting the header or renaming the domain within rancid from the short one to the long one, but I think I will just let it deliver.  It uses our internal relay which we won't deny for the short domain.  I had the rule that was barking about the short domain's demise excluded from the rancid server, and it's all good again.  Maybe I should suggest to the email admin that he should apply that rule only to email that enters from outside, since inside email to the short domain will still deliver.  

Thanks again.  I did try to use the rancid.conf's MAILDOMAIN setting, but it didn't work for me.  Not sure why.  

Chris  

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 3:50 PM
To: Chris Davis <Chris.Davis at principia.edu>; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] Email notification problems.

Chris,

Something about this rings familiar, but it was a long time ago and on Postfix, not Sendmail.

IIRC it was a combination of domain rewrite rules in Postfix's conf, and the local hostname was set wrong in /etc/hosts.

Anything relevant in your mail logs?




On 09/11/2015 23:37, Chris Davis wrote:
> Allan.   Thanks for your response.  The alias file was indeed properly updated and the newaliases command was run.  The mail is being sent to the right place.  But what happens is that even though I send the message in aliases.db to username at longdomain.com, the From: field remains rancid-routers at rancid.shortdomain.com.  It's hard for me to know if this is a sending MTA issue or a receiving MTA issue.  It appears in the headers that the mail is being resent from the right username at longname.com domain, but the delivery address remains rancid-switches at rancid.shortname.com still.  I'm not sure of the impact of recompiling the package replacing shortname.com with the longname.com domain name.  I wonder if it would cause havoc in the CVS or other systems.  I'm guessing that I might be able to do some magic in the sendmail.cf file...  Just not sure where.  Make all delivery messages of shortname.com be rewritten with longname.com instead.  
> 
> I'm wondering if when we remove the shortname domain, it will just deliver anyway since it isn't passing through the shortname's mxhost (which is what is going away).
> 
> Thanks for listening to rambling thoughts...
> Chris   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rancid-discuss [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On 
> Behalf Of Alan McKinnon
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 1:42 PM
> To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Email notification problems.
> 
> On 05/11/2015 16:37, Chris Davis wrote:
>> Feel like an idiot for not being able to find this, but I’m looking 
>> for where a final address is picked up for email notifications.  We 
>> have a very short domain name for our institution and the full one as well.
>> Gone are the days when short and sweet were important.  We’re ending 
>> the mail delivery service to that domain.  So, I have to swap out the 
>> short, and put in the longer.  I checked everywhere I could think of, 
>> and found the aliases file in /etc.  It seemed to have all the right 
>> email address aliases so I updated the original email aliases with 
>> the longer domain named email addresses in the destination section of 
>> the alias.  I updated the aliases.db file without any problems.
>>
>>  
>>
>> But, as you can guess, the emails keep going to the original short 
>> domain addresses.  At some point, we’re going to pull the plug on the 
>> delivery.  Seems so bloody simple, but yet, I can’t seem to find the 
>> problem.  Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.  I’m running 2.3.8.
> 
> 
> Rancid mails the group name as a local recipient, so as you already 
> figured out you need a local MTA with an /etc/aliases. This usually 
> rewrites $rancid_group to $rancid_group at some-domain.com
> 
> If I read you correctly you did run newaliases and it succeeded?
> 
> At this point I'd be checking MAILPREFIX and ADMINMAILPREFIX in racnid.conf, then looking at my MTA logs to see what it's doing with rancid mail. These things are usually MTA problems, not rancid problems.
> 
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