stupid sendmail
Alexander Volovics
awol at home.nl
Sat Oct 13 10:18:23 UTC 2007
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 05:45:14PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Sendmail deduces the from: user's email address from the domain name of
> the system. I am sure that it can be set properly in
> /etc/mail/sendmail.*, but being a postfix user I don't care to check.
> However, postfix also needs to be configured: on my desktop whose
> hostname is numbat.demo.lan, mail sent with the mail command isn't
> accessible outside my LAN because sensible folk reject/discard email
> from domains they can't resolve.
> Note that the mail command does little more than pretty-up the email and
> feed it into sendmail's stdin. The beautification doesn't extend to
> setting the from: address. cron simply used the mail command to send email.
I too configure postfix to handle local mail that does not get
outside my home network. But postfix does not come as the default
MTA, sendmail does!
So I would have expected either a release note on how to
configure sendmail to allow local mail delivery (ie cron/anacron/mail)
to function smoothly or a default configuration that already
included this setup.
Most newbies will end up being on 'localhost.localdomain'.
The default is rather sloppy in my opinion.
Alexander
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