Re: stupid sendmail

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 05:45:14PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
 
> Sendmail deduces the from: user's email address from the domain name of 
> the system. I am sure that it can be set properly in 
> /etc/mail/sendmail.*, but being a postfix user I don't care to check. 
> However, postfix also needs to be configured: on my desktop whose 
> hostname is numbat.demo.lan, mail sent with the mail command isn't 
> accessible outside my LAN because sensible folk reject/discard email 
> from domains they can't resolve.
 
> Note that the mail command does little more than pretty-up the email and 
> feed it into sendmail's stdin. The beautification doesn't extend to 
> setting the from: address. cron simply used the mail command to send email.

I too configure postfix to handle local mail that does not get
outside my home network. But postfix does not come as the default
MTA, sendmail does!

So I would have expected either a release note on how to
configure sendmail to allow local mail delivery (ie cron/anacron/mail)
to function smoothly or a default configuration that already
included this setup. 
Most newbies will end up being on 'localhost.localdomain'.

The default is rather sloppy in my opinion.

Alexander


-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux