How to disable checking mailbox existence by Cyrus+Sendmail to have Majordomo aliases working?

James B. Byrne byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
Thu Nov 7 08:50:06 EST 2013


On Thu, November 7, 2013 05:24, Denis Lapshin wrote:
> I have fully working setup of my mailserver based on OpenBSD with Sendmail
> 8.14.5 + Cyrus-SASL 2.1.25 + Cyrus-imapd 2.4.13 software.
>
> Trying to add Majordomo mail list functionality to it, but Cyrus always
> checking that mailbox is present in system despite that its name is an
> alias in Sendmail "aliases" file or Majordomo "asliases.majordomo" file.
>
> I think, if I disabled checking mailbox alias existence as real Cyrus
> mailbox Majordomo maillists will work as expected with aliased e-mail
> addresses or am I wrong about it?
>

It has been a LONG while since I used either Majordomo or Sendmail but IIRC
then one must create virtual users in Sendmail to handle the MD addresses. 
Check into virtusertable.

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