How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

[John Summerfield]

Chris G wrote:

>>
>> Running sendmail with magic incantations involving -d will probably tell 
>> Chris what it's doing. I've used it, and despite the current man-page's 
>> assertion I did not read the source code to find what to do. I think 
>> they're documented in the sendmail-doc package. I found them in a book by 
>> Paul Vixie, but that book's not where I am, and it is now very old.
>>
> I've got the O'Reilly "Sendmail" book, I got it some years ago when I
> was more involved in such things.  It might throw some light on this
> issue.
> 
> However it does feel distinctly like overkill when all I want is mail
> delivery within a single system!  :-)
> 
> It may well be of course that a trivial sendmail.mc/sendmail.cf will
> do what I want, it's obvious that most of the contents of these files
> are totally irrelevant to local mail delivery.
> 

You need to know how it's making its decision, and I think those debug 
flags will lead you to it.



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