sendmail strangeness

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
It's not the smarthost part or the genericsdomain that I'm having trouble 
with, that's all set. Refer to my original message to see the problem I'm 
having, but I'll put it here again anyway.
Sendmail is started when the system boots up. When a dialup connection is 
established, I must kill and restart sendmail in order for fetchmail to do 
correct local delivery. Once restarted after ppp comes up, everything is 
fine. I think this is a bug in slack 9's fetchmail, this never happened 
with slack 8 or earlier. Note that it was doing this exact same thing 
before I dropped the new sendmail.mc, later processed to sendmail.cf, so it 
doesn't seem like that's the trouble spot. I've dealt with it now anyway, 
I've put a line in ip-up to bring it up when the dialup starts, and a line 
in ip-down to kill it when ppp stops. I've also stopped it from starting at 
boot-up, this new setup works fine now. I'd just like to understand why 
this happens.
As I said before, slackware's pppsetup writes an ip-up script for you, 
perhaps it dealt with it automatically. This time around I wrote all ppp 
files manually rather than use slack's utility due to the dynamic dns setup 
of my isp that slack's pppsetup can't handle. I'd always wind up writing 
them manually anyway.

At 20:00 4/9/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>Jacob,
>You might have a look at the mini-HOWTO titled:
>Sendmail-Address-Rewrite
>
>This walks you through setting up your sendmail.mc file for situations 
>where you are using a dial-up connection where your domain is not on the 
>internet.  There's more to it than just a smart_host.  You need to set up 
>a genericsdomain and a genericstable in your /etc/mail directory.
>
>I can help if needed.
>
>Chris