mail bounces

[kabalah]

hi there, we just converted to scalix from courier and everything is working great, except that when i recieve a mail for a non-existant user, it send's a copy of the email to postmaster. is there a way to unconfigure that?
thankx
jim

[ScalixSupport]

Hi,

Do you mean the Scalix error notification user?

Cheers,
Yuri

[kabalah]

no, i don't think so. here's what happens. if you send an email to our server that doesn't have a valid email address like:

george@xtime.com

there is no george@xtime.com account, so the server sends back a bounce to the sender and it also sends a copy to the postmaster. i'd like not to get the copy being sent to postmaster.

jim

[kabalah]

well now i just get a sendmail error delivered to postmaster for mails that are directed at non-existant users. here's the sendmail text



The original message was received at Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:57:15 -0700
from localhost [127.0.0.1]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<bozo@xtime.com>
(reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 5.3.5 Local configuration error



Original-Envelope-Id: 44C1157C.3010105@manulagi.com
Reporting-MTA: dns; p-exch.xtime.com
Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost
Arrival-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:57:15 -0700

Final-Recipient: RFC822; bozo@xtime.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.3.5
Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.xtime.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 553 5.3.5 system config error
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:57:15 -0700



i do get a bounce on the originating system, but it should say unknown user, not config error....

any clues?
jim

[kabalah]

i experimented with the /etc/mail/local-host-names file, and i found that if i only put in the domain names that should recieve mail and not all the host names that this host could be know as, the problem stopped. so, the local-host-names should only contain domains, not hosts in my case.

jim