On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:09:29AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > Chris G wrote: > >>> >>> Running sendmail with magic incantations involving -d will probably tell >>> Chris what it's doing. I've used it, and despite the current man-page's >>> assertion I did not read the source code to find what to do. I think >>> they're documented in the sendmail-doc package. I found them in a book by >>> Paul Vixie, but that book's not where I am, and it is now very old. >>> >> I've got the O'Reilly "Sendmail" book, I got it some years ago when I >> was more involved in such things. It might throw some light on this >> issue. >> However it does feel distinctly like overkill when all I want is mail >> delivery within a single system! :-) >> It may well be of course that a trivial sendmail.mc/sendmail.cf will >> do what I want, it's obvious that most of the contents of these files >> are totally irrelevant to local mail delivery. > > You need to know how it's making its decision, and I think those debug > flags will lead you to it. > Yes, OK, I need to do some investigation. If/when I eventually fathom it out I'll report here. -- Chris Green
