Re: Virtusertable Entry Failure

I found this, but not sure if it helps.

In your /etc/mail/mailertable should be lines like;

ourldsfamily.com	smtp:<smtpgateway>.ourldsfamily.com
moroni.ourldsfamily.com	local:

and be sure moroni.ourldsfamily.com is listed in /etc/mail/local-host-names

Daniel Liston wrote:

> This is more of a sendmail question than majordomo, and the virtusertable
> entry "should" just work.  I am not sure what changed in newer versions of
> sendmail that would make messages from the local machine invoke use of the
> virtusertable at all.  I always understood those settings to affect SMTP
> network communications only.
> 
> Unfortunately, my knowledge of sendmail has faded over the last few years,
> and I recall bumping into this situation before, but do not remember the
> solution.
> 
> What does your sendmail maillog entry show for the transaction?  Is majordomo
> in your trusted users file?  Is moroni in your domain names file or even in
> a genericstable of sorts?  Have you experimented at all with possible other
> invocations of [email protected] vs. @sub.top.domain?  Is/are the
> spammers sending to listname-outgoing@FQDN or [email protected]?
> Does your sendmail have the feature enabled to "always_add_domain"?  Any of
> these could introduce the what you are seeing.  What does the "hostname" or
> "domainname" command show you?
> 
> Since you are already using methods to hide the -outgoing alias from showing
> up in message headers, a simple band-aid would be to rename all occurrences
> of listname-outgoing to listname-secretrandomtext.  Since this should never
> be visible outside your own mail system, you could even change randomtext as
> often as you like to stay ahead of spammers that may "discover" it's value.
> 
> In the mean time, I will do some googling of sendmail virtusertable and see
> if I can offer any other suggestions.
> 
> Dan Liston
> 
> [email protected] wrote:
> 
> 
>>I received notice that one of my groups had been compromised by a spammer
>>sending email to [email protected]
>>
>>I added a line to /etc/mail/virtusertable:
>>
>>  [email protected] error:nouser Invalid User
>>
>>which works. Unfortunately, it blocks ALL email to the group. The alias is:
>>
>>  listname:   "|/opt/majordomo-1.94.5/wrapper resend -l listname
>>listname-outgoing,nobody"
>>  owner-listname:     [email protected],
>>  listname-owner:     [email protected],
>>  listname-outgoing:  "|/usr/local/bin/bulk_mailer -domain ourldsfamily.com
>>-maxdomains 14 -maxrcpts 4 [email protected]
>>/opt/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/listname", listname-archiver, listname-digestify
>>  listname-approval:  listname-owner
>>  listname-archiver:   "|/opt/majordomo-1.94.5/wrapper archive2.pl -f
>>/opt/majordomo-1.94.5/archives/listname/listname -a -M"
>>  listname-digestify: "|/opt/majordomo-1.94.5/wrapper digest -r -C -l
>>listname-digest listname-digest-outgoing,"
>>  listname-digest:    listname
>>  listname-owner-digest:     listname-owner
>>  listname-digest-approval:  listname-owner
>>  listname-digest-outgoing:  :include:/opt/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/listname-digest
>>
>>There are some linewraps so I've added 2 spaces at the beginning of each line
>>to make it more readable.
>>
>>My question: What Do I Do To Fix This and Stop The Spammers, too?
>>
>>TIA
>>
> 
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