My local-host-names file is empty. How should I put local host in there? -----Original Message----- From: Dan Brosemer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 1:23 PM To: Jay Kelly Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Lost Mail??
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
