On Sun, 27 May 2001, Derek Martin wrote:
> What do you mean you can't get it to run?
He's using nullclient, will cause *everything*, even local mail, to be
forwarded on to his ISP. He may have other things wrong, too, but that's a
killer, I'm sure. :-)
> You're missing the local mailer, which may be why sendmail won't start.
> It's required.
Both the Sendmail documentation and my own experience lead me to believe the
local mailer is included automatically by modern Sendmail distributions.
(I'm not 100% sure, since I always use procmail for local delivery.)
> I also would leave out accept_unresolvable_domains unless you really need
> it.
On a transient dial-up system fetching mail from an ISP, I think this
feature is appropriate. The DNS lookups take time, and if they barf,
fetchmail barfs. Anti-spam is best handled at the ISP -- remember, the
destination MX has already accepted the mail and done delivery once it reaches
the ISP mailbox. Supplement that with a procmail recipe that delivers to
/dev/null or takes more pro-active action, if you so wish.
> Why is mail parsed into multiple folders in the mail spool?
As a guess, because the OP was used to running everything as "root". :-)
> As far as I can tell, ou really have no need to run the [Sendmail] daemon
> at all, so I wouldn't.
Fetchmail really wants a local SMTP listener. You can convince it
otherwise, but it isn't happy about it. :-) Running the daemon is okay, so
long as you firewall port 25 off from the Internet.
For that matter, you should firewall your general system off from the
Internet *anyway*. I think we've beaten that horse to death by now. :-)
> FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
I would think this would be an undesired feature, as it could cause mail
that is well and truly local to try and route via the ISP, no?
--
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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