[Gllug] Restating my problem

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 18:45, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> I am restating this problem in the hope that someone might be able to
> help me - I've spent days reading over HOWTOs but cannot even find this
> problem addressed...
> 
> I have a Red Hat 8.0 box running a custom 2.4.19 kernel.
> 
> I am using sendmail as my MTA.
> 
> But it appears that no standard unix mailboxes exist on the system apart
> from "root". Hence, for example, I can use the BSD "mail" command to
> send an email when I am logged in as Adrian, but I cannot receive it.
> 
> I can also successfully ensure that if I add the line:
> 
> Adrian: adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
> 
> to the aliases file then mail for "Adrian" generated locally passes (via
> my ISP's smtp server and Demon's POP) into my mailbox.
> 
> But what I cannot do is configure my mailer to use standard Linux
> mailspools - is there a fix?

Over the years, RedHat's version of sendmail has gradually grown further
from the sendmail available at sendmail.org. While I'm not sure exactly
what's going on with your setup, if I were you I'd be very tempted to
completely ditch RedHat's sendmail config, and roll your own. For the
setup you describe, it shouldn't be too hard, and it's less likely to
surprise you.

Mike.


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