stupid sendmail
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Sat Oct 13 21:42:37 UTC 2007
Alexander Volovics wrote:
> On a laptop on which I have been trying out F8 test3 I decided to
> not use my standard postfix/mutt/fetchmail/procmail setup but make
> do with claws-mail instead.
> So I just left sendmail (not needing it) with the default install
> configuration.
>
I'm also using F8 test 3, with the default sendmail configuration.
> To my surprise I see constant error messages when getting mail from
> Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at localhost.localdomain>
> Namely:
> - Tried to mail output of jon 'cron daily', but mailer proces
> (usr/bin/sendmail) exited with status 65
> - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> root
> (reason: 553 5.5.4 <root at localhost.localdomain>... Real domain name
> required for sender address) (expanded from: root)
>
I don't see that problem in my logs:
Oct 11 12:59:09 herald sendmail[30907]: l
9BJx9m6030907:
from=<root at herald.private.dragonsdawn.net>,
...relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Oct 11 12:59:09 herald sendmail[30906]:
l9BJx9fO030906: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0),
...stat=Sent (l9BJx9m6030907 Message accepted for delivery)
Use 'rpm -V' to check your installation:
# rpm -V sendmail
S.5....T c /var/log/mail/statistics
Then make sure that your sendmail.mc still lists localhost.localdomain
as a LOCAL_DOMAIN:
# grep ^LOCAL_DOMAIN /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
LOCAL_DOMAIN(`localhost.localdomain')dnl
Possibly, remake your sendmail.cf:
# cd /etc/mail
# make
Finally, make sure that localhost.localdomain is still listed in
/etc/hosts. I think I've seen at least one report on the list that the
hosts file was emptied out, and the other day mine was, too. I haven't
yet tracked down what might have caused that, but perhaps yours has been
emptied as well.
> Wouldn't it be neater to configure sendmail to perform these simple
> duties without these hiccups.
>
It's supposed to be. You've found a bug. Thus is the life of a tester. :)
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