Re: logwatch failing on mail to user

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On Sun December 10 2006 10:42 pm, Tim wrote:
> You'll want to configure your sendmail so that the address it posts
> *FROM* is recognised as valid to the outside world.  No well-set-up ISP
> SMTP server is going to let you send an e-mail apparently coming from
> root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, no matter what "TO" address you've used.
>
> Do you know how to configure sendmail?  If so, that information should
> get you started.  Or you can read about the masquerade options, to
> figure it out.  Write back if you need to.

I've moved in the past 6 months into my first home - after nearly 60 years of 
living as a renter, I'm now dealing with all the viccisitudes of home 
ownership. Since I posted my problem, we had a pretty nasty cold front move 
in to my area, and I've been dealing with multiple problems having to do with 
containing heat in a structure that was built over 40 years before I was 
born, so I haven't had much time to work on this. 

What's puzzling to me is that the configuration I'd been using no longer 
works. I tried editing the sendmail configuration file, but I'm not sure I 
did it correctly - those entries weren't so self evident. For example, the 
line that was suggested be edited by someone looks like this:

dnl # Uncomment and edit the following line if your outgoing mail needs to
dnl # be sent out through an external mail server:
dnl #
dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.your.provider')dnl

First, I don't understand what those 'dnl' acronyms stand for
Secondly, it seems to be saying to uncomment a line that's already uncommented
Third, I did try putting my provider in place of the 'smtp.your.provider' but 
that didn't accomplish anything

More puzzling to me is that denyhosts is working - it sends out an email each 
time it blacklists a host that's trying to log on to my system via ssh, and 
I'm getting those just fine

But, that's as far as I've been able to get - still working on it. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA


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