Problems with sendmail.mc on FC4, creating user accounts

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 14.10.2005 schrieb C.F. Scheidecker Antunes um 23:54:

> I've set up a small machine to act as a sendmail server. I have
> dovecot running and sendmail configured.
> However the users' mail accounts are not being created under
> /var/spool/mail except for root.

/var/spool/mail/ is the INBOX directory. And it is procmail storing the
mail there. So if you have a global or user specific procmailrc the new
incoming mail can be stored at a different place without first hitting
the incoming spool - typically a location inside the user's home. On the
other hand mail can be automatically moved by the mail storage server
(here dovecot) to a different location once the mail is read.

> I am not sure what is going on as I was able to configure it
> successfully on a FC2 box.
> 
> Can anyone spot an error on this config file?

> Here's my mc file:

> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl

That line does not do anything special and is needless in your case.

To debug the situation check your maillog (maybe increase Sendmail's
log_level to 14) and check your procmailrc. If you haven't one then
create one with logging instructions, to see where procmail puts the
mail to.

Alexander


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