Re: Local mails are not delivered

[Uwe Pross <keinfruehstuecksfleisch@gmx.net>]

Uwe Pross wrote:

>  I use a dailup connection. At my old linux system I had a
>  local sendmail daemon which delivers "outgoing" mails when
>  executing "sendmail -q". The local sendmail daemon puts all
>  outgoing mail in a queue and keeps them until "sendmail -q"
>  is executed. For receiving mails I used fetchmail to pull the
>  mail from my provider and deliver them to local users.
>  
>  When I give "outgoing" mails to sendmail it simply hangs for
>  a while. After then the mails appear in the mail queue. I
>  would like that the mails are placed in the queue
>  immediately. Further I need an address mapping that sendmail
>  replaces the FROM-address with some my mail provider accepts.
>  I used /etc/mail/genericstable for that but it seems not to
>  work.

Okay, I spend a couple of days to tell sendmail to use
genericstable and do not do any dns lookups. The only thing I
got was that genericstable was used, but dns lookups were still
done.

The exim package which comes with sarge is compiled with ipv6
which is not supported by my kernel. When it was started it took
some time until it reported that it cannot create an ipv6 socket
and felt back to ipv4.

Yesterday I gave postfix a try and got it all work in a few
hours!! Even postfix uses now different smarthosts depending on
the provider I use for a dailup :-) - Great.

Cheers, Uwe
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