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Date:      Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:52:17 -0600
From:      "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler@mcmurraycomputer.com>
To:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: just a quickie please
Message-ID:  <1D122672928A4967851F5D38E32D0382@dumbledore>

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> Is mcaonline.ca in local-host-names?

 yes. And other mcaonline.ca users can send... I better go check whether any
 use webmail...

 Thank you,
 Shannon Wheeler
 McMurray Computer Experts
 780-790-0728


 ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: "Ekkehard Gehm" <gehm@physik.tu-berlin.de>
 To: "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler@mcmurraycomputer.com>
 Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:18 PM
 Subject: Re: just a quickie please


> Shannon Wheeler schrieb:
>> I'm not currently subscribed to a sendmail list and
>>     I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow so
>>          of course a problem will show up today.
>>
>> FreeBSD 6ish
>> sendmail 13
>> SquirrelMail 1.4.13
>>
>> If I log into squirrelmail, I can send mail no problem.
>>
>> If user is_practitioner logs in, when sending mail she receives:
>>
>> ERROR:
>> Message not sent. Server replied:
>> Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
>> 550 5.1.1 <is_practitioner@mcmurraycomputer.com>... I don't know who
>> you're looking for.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Note that the user's logon name is: is_practitioner
>> but her e-mail address is: isssp_practitioner@mcaonline.ca
>> (FreeBSD limited me to 16 characters for the username)
>>
>> note also that the reject message lists the main domain that the machine
>> belongs to but her e-mail address is a seperate virtual domain.
>>
>> When setting up this user, I set her shell as 'mail-only' even though no
>> such shell exists... most of my other users are set for 'nologin'.
>> In fact, hardly any users use the webmail, especially not for sending.
>> But it should work and does work for other users that I've tried.
>>
>> Anyone know exactly what the problem is? otherwise, just where to look...
>> username vs alias problem?
>> mail-only shell problem?
>> something else?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Shannon Wheeler
>> 780-790-0728
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