289514 - mecha is trying to deliver @mozilla.org mail locally when invoked via virtusertable

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task, P1)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

mozillafoundation.org mail is handled by mecha currently.  Several people have
virtusertable entries pointing their mail to their @mozilla.org addresses. 
mecha is attempting to deliver this messages locally instead of forwarding them
to rheet, and I can't figure out why.

"mozilla.org" is not listed in local-host-names, is not in /etc/hosts, and is
not mentioned anywhere in sendmail.mc or sendmail.cf.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

It should be pointed out that mail sent to @mozilla.org via .forward or directly
addressed there but sent via mecha actually does go to rheet.  It's only when
@mozilla.org is a destination address in virtusertable that it tries to deliver
it locally.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Since all of the addresses on @mozilla.org are forwarding addresses anyway, I've
temporarily worked around this by setting the @mozillafoundation.org addresses
to forward directly to the addresses @mozilla.org would have forwarded to.  This
is yet another place to change it if someone changes their forwarding address,
though, and it doesn't help me with role accounts like webmaster, postmaster,
abuse, etc., which go to multiple people after they get to rheet.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Thanks to twkm on #sendmail (freenode) for helping me step through some things
in the config, turns out that FEATURE(`use_cw_file') in submit.mc was to blame.
 The submission process apparently ignores virtusertable (leaving that for the
MTA phase), and since it was told to look for local host names, it saw
mozillafoundation.org was local and just did it.  So this was only affecting
mail actually sent from mecha (like Bugzilla bugmail), and it's all fixed now
anyway.