On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 07:30:29AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > Chris G wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:40:41AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: >>> Chris G wrote: >>>> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:53:29PM +0100, Gijs 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. Thus I have put:- >>>> root: chris@xxxxxxxx >>>> at the end of /etc/aliases and all is now OK. >>>> What I *don't* quite understand is why sendmail thinks this is >>>> isbd.net and why I couldn't tell it what the system should really be >>>> called. Everything else (apache, ssh, etc.) thinks it's called >>>> home.isbd.net. >>> Given that my f8 system about as you expect, and I don't think that >>> behaviour has changed in some years, I suspect you've changed something. >>> Here's the sendmail.mc from this: >>> 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 >> I changed this line to be home.isbd.net instead and it didn't fix my >> problem so I changed it back. > > Did you run make? > Yes! :-) (and the make restarts sendmail, though I did that as well just to be sure). >>> MAILER(smtp)dnl >>> MAILER(procmail)dnl >>> [root@potoroo mail]# >>> > -- Chris Green -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list