Well, since I was mentioned .... Ido, I'm trying to avoid flooding the mailing list with gazillion lines of configuration files, so I started asking a question about domains and sendmail. If someone would have said "show your configuration files", then I would have posted a link for the files without a problem.
I didn't want to switch from sendmail to another MTA due to a simple reason: the specific server hosts few of my blogs, ticket system, forums and other info that is relevant to many people. People wanted to get notifications email about their tickets, so I can't just tell people "wait, I'm replacing mail server right now, hold on while I'll start configuring it". At the end I created a test VPS server with CentOS 5.6 and sendmail, and I found out that switching from sendmail to exim in CentOS is simple as: yum install -y exim && system-switch-mail exim Thanks to Redhat's organized configuration files, it did the trick. A minute later, emails were going out without a problem. 2011/7/20 ik <[email protected]> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 23:55, Geoff Shang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, ik wrote: >> >> 2011/7/19 Hetz Ben Hamo <[email protected]> >>> >>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have a weird issue with /etc/aliases >>>> I've setup the root to send emails to my email ([email protected]) and >>>> ran >>>> the newaliases command to rebuild the aliases db file. >>>> I've restarted sendmail. >>>> >>>> And yet, sendmail simply ignores this alias and tries to send emails to >>>> [email protected] (which of course doesn't exists). >>>> >>>> Any suggestions? >>>> >>>> >>> Yes, DON'T work with sendmail >>> >> >> <rant> >> I really *hate* these sorts of non-answers. They don't help at all with >> the immediate problem and only really serve to annoy the person asking the >> question. Yes, I realise that in this case the questioner ended up taking >> this person's advice, but there may well have been plenty of cases where >> they might not have been able to. Questions like this don't usually outline >> the rationale for why they are using the software/hardware/whatever they're >> asking about, and neither should they have to. >> > > Yes you do. If you are saying I have a problem with something, and want > others to help you, you should provide as much as possible information about > the issue. Hetz imho gave only limited information about the problem, and > where he think that it might be. That's does not helping us to help him, so > usually when someone lack of proper information about the whole thing, get > an answer as detailed as they provided. > Even though I consider Hetz as a friend, he should know better and provide > more information on the subject, such as "I have a new installation" or "old > installation" and "here are the entire settings I provided" etc... all of > that information even if it seems not very helpful, it might provide a clue > for the helpers to help him. Let's assume that you have only 10 reasons why > sendmail acts like it acts, don't you think that such information can limit > the amount of guess work ? > > >> >> If I ask about a problem I'm having with my cat, the last thing I want to >> hear from someone is that I should have a dog instead. The fact is that I >> have a cat. There may be good reasons for recommending a dog instead, and I >> can see why it might be relevent to mention this when answering, but to just >> say "get a dog" is not at all helpful. >> >> And if you *must* say "get a dog", at least say why. >> > > Wrong way example that does not suite the issue at hand. > If you rant that your cat does not understand your commands, and you want > to make it understand it, then "take a dog" is the answer. That's not what > you are looking for, please provide additional information or rephrase your > question regarding the issue with your cat. Maybe the problem is that the > cat keep on getting hurt because it stand on electric oven and get burns, > and then the solution is completly different, but when you phrase it that > you want an animal that answer commands, the the answer you'll have is "get > a dog" > > >> </rant> >> >> Geoff. > > > Ido > >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-il<http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- *חץ בן חמו חץ-ביז *השכרה ואירוח של שרתים פיזיים מעוניין להשתמש בשרותים שחסומים לגולש הישראלי? Hulu? NetFlix? Pandora? Google Voice? אם כן, היכנס לכאן <http://vps.net.bz/?p=406>.
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