Re: Logwatch report on another machine?

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Dave Burns wrote:

>>> OP seems to have two problems:
>>>
>>> 1) sendmail is not configured correctly, email sent by cron jobs is
>>> not delivered.
>>> 2) He would like to send mail to an address which is broken, either
>>> the domain doers not exist or DNS not working right? Could it be that
>>> his machine has the hostname set as 'alfred' and is on the
>>> gayleard.com network, so thinks of itself as alfred.gayleard.com, but
>>> his ISP (gayleard?) has not set things up so that DNS can resolve that
>>> name?
>>
>> Actually, I am not running a sendmail server in this sense on my system.
> 
> Which one? You need something running on helen so that email can be
> sent, something else running on alfred so the email can be received.
> 
>> I don't think port 25 is open to incoming packets.
> 
> Well, if that is the system where you want to receive email, that
> would explain why you don't receive any. If on the other system,
> irrelevant.

I should have said, port 25 is not open to packets coming from the internet.
(I have not opened the pinhole on my ADSL modem to port 25.)
I allow all traffic on my internal LAN,
and am running sendmail on all machines.

>> But I think it must be possible to process and deliver it locally,
>> and am trying to find out if this belief is justified.
> 
> Hmm, if you're a fetchmail guru, why not use that? Send the logwatch
> reports to root@helen, then on Alfred use fetchmail every 5 minutes to
> fetch root@helen's mail.

This would require me to run a POP3 or IMAP server on helen, I think,
which I don't want to do.
I just want to be able to send email from helen to alfred
without it going outside my house.



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