On Sun, 2005-03-07 at 02:43 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 03.07.2005 schrieb David Niemi um 1:21: > dave is a system user? > The /etc/hosts file is important as Sendmail takes it hostname from it. > You can override this in the sendmail.mc. The local-host-names file sets > additional class {w} entries, for which Sendmail feels responsible. As > it is a plain text file it is required that you "service sendmail > restart" after changes to it. > Can you please post your /etc/hosts file content, the exact maillog > entries and the result from command > > $ echo '$=w' | /usr/lib/sendmail -bt > > > What next? Meanwhile I'll continue trying to read up on procmail and > > sendmail, but I don't know what to look for so it's difficult. > > The basic setup would simply work. What else did you change in your > Sendmail setup? /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 me me.mynetwork localhost #127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost $ echo '$=w' | /usr/lib/sendmail -bt ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked) Enter <ruleset> <address> > me.mynetwork localhost.localdomain me localhost [127.0.0.1] I had made the additions to /etc/mail/access with the RELAY option, but removed them and added them into "local-host-names" as "me.mynetwork" and "me" with no RELAY. Nothing else changed by me. The user name in question is more appropriately "DaveN". I don't like posting actual user / system information on the Internet but I am being very careful to ensure all spellings and translations are correct