[ALUG] How to make sendmail deliver mail locally?

[Mark Ridley]

On Mon, February 26, 2007 12:40 pm, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> I have previously used postfix but, since I only want local mail
> delivery, thought I'd try the default sendmail configuration in
> Slackware.
>
> I can't get sendmail to deliver mail locally, it *always* tries to
> send it out.
>
> For example see the following two entries from /var/log/maillog:-
>
>     Feb 26 12:31:17 home sendmail[4932]: l1QCVGAZ004932:
> to=maxine at localhost, ctladdr=chris (1000/100), delay=00:00:01,
> xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=30312, relay=[127.0.0.1]
> [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (l1QCVGhY004933 Message accepted for
> delivery)
>
>     Feb 26 12:34:26 home sm-mta[4935]: l1QCVGhY004933:
> to=<maxine at home.isbd.net>, delay=00:03:09, xdelay=00:03:09,
> mailer=esmtp, pri=120480, relay=84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net.
> [84.45.228.40], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with
> 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net.
>
> The first line says that sendmail accepts the mail, which is a good
> start, but the second is telling me that it's trying to send it to
> maxine at home.isbd.net which won't work because that tries to go to
> 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net which is my router which isn't set up
> to allow incoming connections on port 25.
>
> How do I tell sendmail that localhost is 'here'?  Even better would be
> if I could tell sendmail that home.isbd.net is 'here' too but maybe
> that's expecting too much!

Add domains that are local to local-host-names.

-bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/mail/local-host-names
# local-host-names - include all aliases for your machine here.

Cheers.

-Mark






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