How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

[Chris G]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:09:29AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes, OK, I need to do some investigation.  If/when I eventually fathom
it out I'll report here.

-- 
Chris Green