On 08:14 Mon 16 Jul , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes it is and in my experience you will get help there. Keep your > fingers crossed for Per Hedlund to respond if you do post there.
Thanks. I'll RTFS as soon as I finish my last exam (Wednesday - I guess
*that's* what I'm keeping my fingers crossed for atm... ;-) ) and if I
don't find the reason I'll look into the sendmail mailing list.
> I don't remember the exact reasons or format but I believe sendmail
> calls `gethostbyname' which looks first at /etc/hosts.
Yes, I read that in the docs. I made up the domain .local and
everything's completely fine now - I just wonder _why exactly_ sendmail
needs to have an imaginatory domain name.
> A further point about documentation... you may have mentioned this
> but I did not see it.
>
> The document /usr/share/sendmail-cf/README
> Has a lot of help but may be thin on exact details at times.
Thanks, I've read through most of the stuff in the /usr/share/doc/sendmail*/
directory and also through the online docs at sendmail.org and a lot of
stuff on the net I googled for (like installation instructions for
majordomo). They all essentially say that sendmail.cf should have one of
the following: either `Tuser' or `Ctuser' or
`Ft/file/with/trusted/users'. I tried all of them and though
# egrep '^T' sendmail.cf
Troot
Tdaemon
Tuucp
Taleks
seems to be OK I still don't seem to have any luck. I usually generate
sendmail.cf through m4 and senmdmail.mc, but even with editing
sendmail.cf manually I don't get any results...
Thanks,
Aleks
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