RE: Lost Mail??
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Kelly [mailto:neutec@pacbell.net]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 3:16 PM
To: Dan Brosemer
Subject: RE: Lost Mail??
sendmail.mc file
divert(0)
VERSIONID('@(#)sendmail.mc 8.11.0-1 (Debian) 20000510')
OSTYPE(debian)dnl
LOCAL_CONFIG
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
Cwdebiandomain.com
FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl
FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl
FEATURE(nouucp, 'reject')dnl
MAILER_DEFINITIONS
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
LOCAL_CONFIG
MASQUERADE_AS(debiandomain.com)dnl
Thats it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Brosemer [mailto:odin@linuxfreak.com]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 2:05 PM
To: Jay Kelly
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Lost Mail??
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:57:38PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> Well I put localhost in the local-host-names and then killall -HUP. I then
> tried again but I had the same problem. I receive the mail but cant find
it.
> Any Idea's ??/
Try posting your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file.
-Dan
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:31:48PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> > My local-host-names file is empty. How should I put local host in there?
>
> edit the file. Put 'localhost' on a line of its own in the file. Then
> issue 'killall -HUP sendmail' as root.
>
> When you're testing fetchmail, use 'fetchmail -k' so you don't actually
lose
> anything if this doesn't work.
>
> -Dan
>
> > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:56PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > Is it possible to tell sendmail where to store new incoming mail. Im
> using
> > > sendmail along with fetchmail and after my mail is retrieved from my
> isp,
> > I
> > > cant seem to find it. I use mutt to read my mail and have mutt looking
> in
> > > /var/spool/mail/neutec but there is never any mail there. Fetchmail
> > informs
> > > me of receiving new mail so Im pretty sure its on my machine
somewhere.
> > Has
> > > anyone ever had this and if so what needs to be changed to fix it?
> > > Thanks Guys
> >
> > Fetchmail/exim will throw your mail away silently if you don't have
> > 'localhost' in your local_domains. I assume the same would happen if
> > sendmail didn't have 'localhost' in $=w (though I've never tested this).
> >
> > What's in your /etc/mail/local-host-names file?
> >
> > -Dan
> >
> > --
> > "... the most serious problems in the Internet have been caused by
> > unenvisaged mechanisms triggered by low-probability events; mere human
> > malice would never have taken so devious a course!" - RFC 1122 section
> 1.2.2
> >
> >
>
> --
> "... the most serious problems in the Internet have been caused by
> unenvisaged mechanisms triggered by low-probability events; mere human
> malice would never have taken so devious a course!" - RFC 1122 section
1.2.2
>
>
--
"... the most serious problems in the Internet have been caused by
unenvisaged mechanisms triggered by low-probability events; mere human
malice would never have taken so devious a course!" - RFC 1122 section 1.2.2
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