[lug] need user/sendmail advice

[Rob Riggs]

You may need to configure /etc/sendmail.cw with the hostname(s)
and domainname(s) as appropriate for this box and add some
relay rules for localhost and the IP in /etc/mail/access.

You'll need to restart sendmail for these changes to take
affect.

Steven wrote:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Hello Blug-list readers,
>         From time to time I have sendmail (and fetchmail) running on my
> computer. My question concerns my one non-root account not being able to
> get mail. If root tries to send mail to this user, the result is 'User
> unknown'. Yet, I first sent this letter to root as the user. So the user
> account can send mail locally (at least to root) but cannot send mail out
> or receive mail, 'relaying denied' and 'User unknown' are the results in
> each respective case.
>         My quick fix was to edit the aliases file so that root aliases
> every account that this user normally would. I understand that this really
> isn't necessary but it keeps fetchmail from complaining. But this
> 'solution' also keeps me log in as root way too much!
>         I should confess that I did not modify the sendmail.cf (.mc) file
> that was built when sendmail was installed. So is that where I goofed or
> could this be a permissions problem? (someone suggested a permissions
> problem with /var/spool/mail/'useraccount' or a poor configuration of
> procmail...which I never thought to touch). Any ideas would be very
> welcomed, and just in case it will help, we are dealing with a redhat
> distro here.
>  TIA,
>  Steven
> //* insert witty one-liner here
> 
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