I am trying to understand how this works. any mail sent to the linux server
from a workstation, is delivered to sendmail, as sendmail is the smtp server
on port 25 (correct me if I am wrong). Then if the mail is local it is
passed on to procmail to process local delivery to the local recepient. If
the mail is remote, sendmail puts it the mail out que to deliver to the
remote host.
If, as you said, any local mail which is sent without a domian name is
directly passed on to procmail for delivery, how is the mail delivered to
procmail? bcs as I understand, all mails are delivered to port 25 which is
the smtp server.
Raj
-----Original Message-----
From: Kiran Kumar M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 12:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sendmail
You might be in confusion. If you are typing the only user name without
domain name, automatically it knows the user is local and passit to
procmail.
If you are specifing the domain name it will seeks the help of DNS to get
the IP of that domain.
Kiran
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Michael Burger wrote:
> You're half correct. Sendmail has to know that the user is local,
> and it then passes the message to procmail to process.
>
> The problem, as it appears to me, without having any further data, is
> that Sendmail probably knows that it's supposed to deliver to users
> at the system name, but may not know that it's also supposed to
> accept mail for just the domain name, too, and may be rejecting the
> mail based on that.
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:47:45 +0530 (IST), Kiran Kumar M wrote:
>
> >
> >It is using procmail for local users not by sendmail.
> >
> >Kiran
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Deependra B. Tandukar wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings!
> >>
> >> My sendmail works but when I send email to local users([EMAIL PROTECTED])
in a
> >> linux box. It doesn't go. In mail in gives the error [EMAIL PROTECTED]
has
> >> fatal error. But when mail is sent with the user name only (user), it
works
> >> perfectly.
> >>
> >> Can anybody trace out the problem?
> >>
> >> Looking forward to hearing from you.
> >>
> >> regards
> >> DT
> >>
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