FC4 sendmail user mail file missing

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 03.07.2005 schrieb David Niemi um 14:11:

> /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1	me	me.mynetwork	localhost
> #127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost

So you have no network, thus no static or dynamic IP address? Then it
should look like

127.0.0.1      me.mynetwork localhost.localdomain me localhost

Else set "me.mynetwork   me" for the non-loopback IP.

> $ echo '$=w' | /usr/lib/sendmail -bt
> ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
> Enter <ruleset> <address>
> > me.mynetwork
> localhost.localdomain
> me
> localhost
> [127.0.0.1]

Ok, indicates that you really have only the loopback network device and
no other IP than 127.0.0.1.

> I had made the additions to /etc/mail/access with the RELAY option, but
> removed them and added them into "local-host-names" as "me.mynetwork"
> and "me" with no RELAY.  Nothing else changed by me.

local-host-names is a flat, plain text file and only lists additional
hostnames. Each hostname in a separate line. "RELAY" settings only
belong to the access_db (filename "access", hashed map to be created
afterwards).

> The user name in question is more appropriately "DaveN".  I don't like
> posting actual user / system information on the Internet but I am being
> very careful to ensure all spellings and translations are correct

Ok, here we have the trouble maker: Don't use capital letters in user
names!

http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.17

Alexander


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