From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IAQVV-0007S8-Up for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:20:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6GDJBsa000615; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:19:11 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6GDEI1Y027185 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:14:19 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7734664F13 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:14:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.754 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.754 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.716, BAYES_50=0.001, NO_REAL_NAME=0.961] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id C3WU1gnHIe0s for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:14:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C2564D8D for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:14:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IAQOw-00009C-5m for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:14:10 +0200 Received: from adsl-70-131-53-52.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net ([70.131.53.52]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:14:10 +0200 Received: from reader by adsl-70-131-53-52.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:14:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: reader@newsguy.com Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Sendmail woes Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:14:00 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87zm1w5w4n.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <20070716010953.GA10916@brmbr> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-70-131-53-52.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:m2JgMNd4EcUeHlKbE608G7TL7HU= Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l6GDJBsu000615 X-Archives-Salt: 03282d9c-094b-4e58-8311-2fb3d35af4e6 X-Archives-Hash: 56d9376f235bcc673733b8f23ecfe67b =D0=90=D0=BB=D0=B5=D0=BA=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=BD=D0=B4=D1=8A=D1=80 =D0=9B. =D0=94= =D0=B8=D0=BC=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=80=D0=BE=D0=B2 writes: > Hello all, > > Probably the sendmail-list would be the better place for this ran= t > but I think I'll check with you guys first, just to see whether or not > I've missed something obvious. Yes it is and in my experience you will get help there. Keep your fingers crossed for Per Hedlund to respond if you do post there. Keep in mind that I have configured sendmail so many times I can't even count them but every time I have to completely refresh my memory. What I'm getting at is that any advice I give here may be tainted with poorly remembering the steps I've been thru. With the part about sendmail not knowing what host it is running on: You can solve this by how you list the localhost in /etc/hosts. I don't remember the exact reasons or format but I believe sendmail calls `gethostbyname' which looks first at /etc/hosts. This is the format I currently have: 127.0.0.1 reader.local.lan reader localhost In your case you might try (to conform with the posted sendmail.mc): 127.0.0.1 myhost.local myhost localhost A further point about documentation... you may have mentioned this but I did not see it. The document /usr/share/sendmail-cf/README Has a lot of help but may be thin on exact details at times. --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list