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@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@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@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!
Outgoing mail works fine by the way.
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@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@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@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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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:52:08PM -0000, Mark Ridley wrote:
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.
I've already done that:-
home# more /etc/mail/local-host-names # names of hosts for which we receive email home.isbd.net
It's surely not necessary/useful to put localhost in there it it?
On Mon, February 26, 2007 1:25 pm, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:52:08PM -0000, Mark Ridley wrote:
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.
I've already done that:-
home# more /etc/mail/local-host-names # names of hosts for which we receive email home.isbd.netIt's surely not necessary/useful to put localhost in there it it?
No, you can edit sendmail.mc, so the following line looks:
dnl # Also accept email sent to "localhost.localdomain" as local email. dnl # LOCAL_DOMAIN(`localhost.localdomain')dnl
Then:
m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf (this overwrites/autogenerates sendmail.cf)
Then restart sendmail.
Cheers.
-Mark
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:29:38PM -0000, Mark Ridley wrote:
On Mon, February 26, 2007 1:25 pm, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:52:08PM -0000, Mark Ridley wrote:
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.
I've already done that:-
home# more /etc/mail/local-host-names # names of hosts for which we receive email home.isbd.netIt's surely not necessary/useful to put localhost in there it it?
No, you can edit sendmail.mc, so the following line looks:
dnl # Also accept email sent to "localhost.localdomain" as local email. dnl # LOCAL_DOMAIN(`localhost.localdomain')dnl
Then:
m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf (this overwrites/autogenerates sendmail.cf)
As far as I can see the default Slackware sendmail.cf has this set already.
... but as I said I've solved the problem by using postfix.
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Eur Ing Chris Green -
Mark Ridley