On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:40:41AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > Chris G wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:53:29PM +0100, Gijs wrote: > > >> sendmail knows that *local* mail is delivered to the mail spool. >> In fact I have found that sendmail thinks this system is called >> isbd.net and thus mail sent to chris@xxxxxxxx gets put into the file >> /var/mail/chris by sendmail. Thus I have put:- >> root: chris@xxxxxxxx >> at the end of /etc/aliases and all is now OK. >> What I *don't* quite understand is why sendmail thinks this is >> isbd.net and why I couldn't tell it what the system should really be >> called. Everything else (apache, ssh, etc.) thinks it's called >> home.isbd.net. > > Given that my f8 system about as you expect, and I don't think that > behaviour has changed in some years, I suspect you've changed something. > Here's the sendmail.mc from this: > divert(-1)dnl > include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl > VERSIONID(`setup for linux')dnl > OSTYPE(`linux')dnl > define(`confDEF_USER_ID', ``8:12'')dnl > define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl > define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST', `True')dnl > define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', `True')dnl > define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH', `/usr/bin/procmail')dnl > define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl > define(`STATUS_FILE', `/var/log/mail/statistics')dnl > define(`UUCP_MAILER_MAX', `2000000')dnl > define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl > define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,novrfy,noexpn,restrictqrun')dnl > define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl > define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl > FEATURE(`no_default_msa', `dnl')dnl > FEATURE(`smrsh', `/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl > FEATURE(`mailertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl > FEATURE(`virtusertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl > FEATURE(redirect)dnl > FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl > FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl > FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl > FEATURE(local_procmail, `', `procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl > FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -T<TMPF> -o /etc/mail/access.db')dnl > FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl > EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl > FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl > LOCAL_DOMAIN(`localhost.localdomain')dnl I changed this line to be home.isbd.net instead and it didn't fix my problem so I changed it back. > MAILER(smtp)dnl > MAILER(procmail)dnl > [root@potoroo mail]# > -- Chris Green
