Sendmail yields "user unkown" errors even after (wrongly) setting up a catch-all account

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Published on 2012-03-24T21:46:58Z Indexed on 2012/03/24 23:31 UTC
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I was trying to follow the instructions found here to set up a catch-all account, but still I get the following message for mails sent to non-existent users:

The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.1.1 [email protected]... User unknown (state 14).

Everything else works, though... /etc/mail/local-host-names and /etc/mail/virtusertable were set up as instructed. Any advice? Thanks!

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