[SOLVED] Fail2ban sendmail-whois sends to old receiver address
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Fail2ban sendmail-whois sends to old receiver address
Hi!
I had a pretty stable fail2ban installation protecting my httpd, sshd, postfix, and dovecot services. Until one day I registered a new domain name and then deleted the email notification recipient user (let's call it applejuice) via userdel, and also the home directory (/home/applejuice). After creating my new user (let's call it apple), I then updated the sendmail-whois recipient in the config file /etc/postfix/main.cf from applejuice to apple for all of the configured jails.
However, when banning IPs, I noticed that the jail tries to send emails to applejuice instead of apple in /var/log/maillog. Note that I did not specify any domain name in the sendmail-whois action. Also, I made sure applejuice cannot be found in any config file in /etc/:
Code:
find /etc/ -type f -exec grep applejuice {} \;
Any idea how I can find out why fail2ban tries to send to the old configured email?
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