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. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
