On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 17:39 +0100, Christian Menzel wrote: > Hi! > > On my fresh install of FC6 sendmail is not working correctly. > > When trying something like > mail -s Test root > > the mail is not sent but instead I get following message: > /home/chris/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/chris/dead.letter > > and in /var/log/maillog: > Nov 6 17:35:12 nomad sendmail[5023]: kA6GZC7V005023: > ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=localhost > [127.0.0.1] (may be forged), reject=553 5.5.4 > <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Real domain name required for sender > address > Nov 6 17:35:12 nomad sendmail[5022]: kA6GZCZV005022: to=root, > ctladdr=chris (500/500), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, > pri=30029, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format > error > Nov 6 17:35:12 nomad sendmail[5023]: kA6GZC7V005023: > from=<chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, size=29, class=0, nrcpts=0, > proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] (may be forged) > > The mail is rejected because a real domain name is required. > Should I define a (faked) domain name for local mail, I didn't have this > problem on previous installs. > > Regards > Chris I am unclear. Did you configure sendmail.cf before you did all this? If so what configuration did you do? -- ======================================================================= We decided it was night again, so we camped for twenty minutes and drank another six beers at a Young Life campsite. O.C. got into the supervisory adult's sleeping bag and ran around in it. "This is the judgment day and I'm a terrifying apparition," he screamed. Then the heat made O.C. ralph in the bag. -- The Utterly Monstrous, Mind-Roasting Summer of O.C. and Stiggs, National Lampoon, October 1982 ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
