Re: FC6 sendmail does not send mails from/to local users

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 17:39 +0100, Christian Menzel wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On my fresh install of FC6 sendmail is not working correctly.
> 
> When trying something like
> mail -s Test root
> 
> the mail is not sent but instead I get following message:
> /home/chris/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/chris/dead.letter
> 
> and in /var/log/maillog:
> Nov  6 17:35:12 nomad sendmail[5023]: kA6GZC7V005023:
> ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<chris localhost localdomain>, relay=localhost
> [127.0.0.1] (may be forged), reject=553 5.5.4
> <chris localhost localdomain>... Real domain name required for sender
> address
> Nov  6 17:35:12 nomad sendmail[5022]: kA6GZCZV005022: to=root,
> ctladdr=chris (500/500), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
> pri=30029, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format
> error
> Nov  6 17:35:12 nomad sendmail[5023]: kA6GZC7V005023:
> from=<chris localhost localdomain>, size=29, class=0, nrcpts=0,
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)
> 
> The mail is rejected because a real domain name is required.
> Should I define a (faked) domain name for local mail, I didn't have this
> problem on previous installs.
> 
> Regards
> Chris

I am unclear. Did you configure sendmail.cf before you did all this? If so what 
configuration did you do?
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