Re: Issue with mail

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Ron Bramblett wrote:
> Eric,
> I had similar problems but mine was receiving mail on the ethernet 
> connection.
> I disabled the line in the /etc/sendmail.mc then rebuilt the sendmail.cf 
> file
>
> To disable it add dnl in front.
>
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

You can also simply edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and change the

	O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp, Addr=127.0.0.1, Name-MTA

to

	O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp, Name-MTA

and restart sendmail.

> > Also I get an error -
> > [root webcpsi root]# mail -v echua tribune com
> > Subject: test
> > test
> > Cc: echua tribune com    Unrecognized host name tribune.com.
> > root... WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases; reading text
> > version

You must "makemap aliases" to get rid of that.

> > /etc/aliases: 63 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 625 bytes total
> > /root/dead.letter... Saved message in /root/dead.letter

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