Tim wrote: > My sendmail apparently without protest, but it just doesn't send. > Logwatch mails rarely get through. They didn't end up in /var/mail/root > (i.e. local delivery doesn't work), and when I put an alias for root > that sent mails to my working mailserver (on another computer, that > everything else on the LAN works absolutely fine with), they don't > arrive either. Periodically, there'll be a postmaster bounce that does > arrive, complaining that it wasn't able to send the post (oddly those > postmaster mails seem to get there). > > Looking through various logs, I see things are still insisting that > they're "localhost.localdomain" when they shouldn't be (I have manually > set my Fedora 9 network configurations for a domain, long ago, since the > install and network manager didn't pay attention to my DHCP server), and > I see plenty of "could not send message" notices, and some nameserver > timeout messages in the very tardy logwatch posts. If I do a service > sendmail restart, the messages stuck in the queue are sent. I'm sure you know much more than me about this, but if you want logwatch to be sent to another local computer, I think you have to change the entry dnl # DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl as shown in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc . -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
