On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:35:09PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Chris G 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. > > I haven't followed all this thread, > but have you ever posted your sendmail.mc > (deleting lines starting in dnl)? > It's unchanged from the original 'as installed' one so anyone with a standard Fedora 7 installation can take a look at theirs and it'll be th same. Anyway, here it is:- 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 MAILER(smtp)dnl MAILER(procmail)dnl ... and as I said I have tried changing the LOCAL_DOMAIN line to home.isbd.net (and run make) but that didn't help so I changed it back. -- Chris Green