Obsoleted by Real Time Cyrus Integration Version 2
The document describes how to make sendmail check in real time presence of cyrus mailbox using socket map.
Socket map support in sendmail is available via sendmail 8.12 patch and it is included in unpatched sendmail-8.13 Cyrus-2.2.3 provides socket map daemon.
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Modify *.mc file you use to generate your sendmail.cf (as separate file with gpg signature):
dnl It makes sendmail define user map in sendmail.cf define(`LUSER_RELAY') dnl define location of "socket map" socket provided by cyrus define(`SMMAP_SOCKET',`/var/imap/socket/smmapd') LOCAL_CONFIG # cyrus - map for checking cyrus maibox presence Kcyrus socket -T<TMPF> local:SMMAP_SOCKET LOCAL_RULESETS SLocal_localaddr # Treat system mailboxes as usual R$+ $: $(user $1 $) R$+ <> $@ # Detect cyrus mailboxes - deliver via cyrus mailer R$- $: $1 <$(cyrus $1 $: $)> R$- <$+<TMPF>> #error $@ 4.3.0 $: "451 Temporary system failure. Please try again later." R$- <$+> $# cyrus $: @$1 # Treat remaning as usuall R$* $@
sendmail -d60.5 -bv os_account_name sendmail -d60.5 -bv cyrus_account_with_no_os_account sendmail -d60.5 -bv no_account
Remove define(`confLOCAL_MAILER',`cyrus') from your *.mc file if it is present.
Remove F=A5 flags from cyrus mailer specification if you want to use aliases like the one below:
cyrus-only: cyrus-only, somebody@sowhere.else.com
To remove the flags use the following line in *.mc file you use to generate sendmail.cf:
MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`CYRUS',`-A5')
Thanks to Tilman Schmidt for reporting the possible problem with aliases.