dsl and sendmail

Brent Harding bharding at ufw2.com
Sat Jan 6 15:21:12 EST 2001 

What do you do about when the machine is down to cue the mail for delivery
when you come back online? I've not tested it out much on my isp, but when
I'm off, and I send mail to my linux hostname, it never makes it back in
when I come on again, never tried connecting to their mail server and doing
"etrn hostname", maybe that'd do it, but it'd still not supress the warning
messages if I subscribe to lists like that. Actually, I own a domain, and
want to use it in my email address.
At 05:39 PM 1/5/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Sorry on this but to answer Steve's original question here is what you do.
>
>1.  Make a file called /etc/virtdomains or what ever.  I just put it in
/etc but you can put it where you like.
>
>2.  In the file you make put in the name of the domain for which you
receive mail.  For example mine is asmodean.net.
>
>3.  In sendmail.cf add the line: 'Fw/etc/virtdomains' and restart sendmail.
>
>I put the line somewhere after the privilaged users just so it's somewhere
near the top of the cf file.  My linux box is called gallegos.asmodean.net
but it can 
>still receive mail sent to raul at asmodean.net because of this.  Mail gets
dumped into raul's spool file just as it should and there is no procmail or
fetchmail 
>fancies to be done with things for it to work.  I'm glad I could help with
this one.
>
>Good luck.
>
>On 05 Jan 2001 15:24:10 -0500, John Covici wrote:
>
>>There is an O'Reilly associates book on sendmail which is must reading
>>if you want to fool with it.
>>
>>Also, you should get the source distribution and there is a wonderful
>>readme file in the cf directory which describes all the possible
>>things you can do with the m4 stuff.  I think I remember a feature
>>which will do what you want in terms of the domain aliasing.
>>
>>Also, you can tell sendmail to relay from lnx.homesgrown.com to
>>homesgrown.com or whatever, but you must have an mx record for
>>everyone i.e. all the machines in your domain as well as the domain
>>itself.
>>
>>"Holmes, Steve" <SAHolmes at ahcccs.state.az.us> writes:
>>
>>> I've spent considerable with the M4 macros and the creation of sendmail.cf
>>> files with my slackware 7.1 settup and very little is said directly about
>>> aliasing of incoming e-mail addresses.  I'll take a look at
sendmail.org in
>>> case they have something.  I remember reading about some database stuff
but
>>> it wasn't clear to me.  I think it was actually related to a hash table or
>>> such but can't figure out how to build it.
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Klarich, Terry [mailto:terry.klarich at wilcom.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:21 PM
>>> To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
>>> Subject: RE: dsl and sendmail
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If you have redhat installed, you want to make sure you have the
sendmail-cf
>>> rpm loaded.  Under /usr/lib/sendmail-cf(?) there are some sendmail m4
>>> macros.  Use these to build a custom sendmail.cf file.  If you go to
>>> sendmail.org, there is complete documentation on these macros and how to
>>> build a sendmail.cf file.
>>> 
>>> Terry
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Holmes, Steve [mailto:SAHolmes at ahcccs.state.az.us]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 1:31 PM
>>> To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
>>> Subject: RE: dsl and sendmail
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I would like to jump in here with another sendmail question though not
>>> dealing with DSL yet.
>>> 
>>> I have a machine, lnx1 configured to use my domain, holmesgrown.com;
thus my
>>> machine address would be lnx1.holmesgrown.com.  When I have mail coming in
>>> to me, I use an e-mail address such as steve at holmesgrown.com.  Notice that
>>> lnx1 is removed.  How do I configure sendmail on my machine to handle the
>>> incoming mail?  What I've been doing lately is to use procmail and filter
>>> all mail I pop down with fetchmail and resend it to local users on my lnx1
>>> box.  I would like to find a cleaner way to do this.  I think I need to do
>>> something with aliases for sendmail or set up a sendmail DBM file or
>>> something.  Any ideas on how best to do this?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Klarich, Terry [mailto:terry.klarich at wilcom.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 8:19 AM
>>> To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'; SPEAKUP Distribution List
>>> Subject: RE: dsl and sendmail
>>> 
>>> 
>>> as root do a "sendmail -q -v" and see what you get.  You should get some
>>> kind of error.  Let me know what that is.
>>> 
>>> Terry
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:raul at asmodean.net]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 7:00 AM
>>> To: SPEAKUP Distribution List
>>> Subject: dsl and sendmail
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi gang.  I apologize for this off-topic message in advance but I'm at a
>>> loss as to what the problem could be.  Yesterday I switched from using my
>>> rr.com cable 
>>> modem to earthlink dsl.  I've 
>>> installed roaring penguin and have successfully connected to the net.
I can
>>> surf just fine now.  The problem is if I try to send mail through my Linux
>>> box 
>>> sendmail is not sending any mail and this started when I switched from
using
>>> the road runner to the dsl.  The only thing I can think of is that because
>>> the dsl 
>>> connection uses ppp0 instead of eth0 that might have something to do with
>>> it, but I can't put my finger on it.  I'm using slackware 7.0 with some
>>> ugraded 
>>> packages to 7.1.  As I stated, this worked before and still does if I
switch
>>> to the road runner cable modem but not with the ppp0 interface using dsl.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?  I'm still using the default sendmail.cf which came with
>>> slcakware.  I've nothad to modify it before.  I've also kept my
>>> gallegos.asmodean.net name on 
>>> the linux box which is how it was setup for rr.com and that part has not
>>> changed.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Raul A. Gallegos -- raul at asmodean.net
>>> msn id: ragallegos at hotmail.com -- icq: 5283055
>>> http://www.asmodean.net
>>> 
>>> 
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>>-- 
>>         John Covici
>>         covici at ccs.covici.com
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>Raul A. Gallegos -- raul at asmodean.net
>msn id: ragallegos at hotmail.com -- icq: 5283055
>http://www.asmodean.net
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