Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:59:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: David Goddard <d.m.goddard@ic.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -auto and sendmail as a delivery agent Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813235732.2059N-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970812131739.009fb690@mism.ad.ic.ac.uk>
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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, David Goddard wrote: > I know this is a variation on a FAQ, but trawls though the archives and > docs haven't produced definitive answers. > > I'm running ppp -auto to handle my networking (works fine) on by 2.2 box, > and I'd like to check my mail with poplicent (no probs there) and send it > with sendmail (ugh). > > During startup, sendmail (called from rc.local with -bd flag only) sends a > packet to the network, causing ppp to dial. I find this strange as there > is no q flag. One acronym: DNS. Either set yourself up as a caching DNS or set up ppp to ignore DNS queries as a keepalive. > A possibly related problem is that when I try and send mail to a local user > (ie. mail dmg or mail dmg@localhost), it brings up the ppp link and sends > it to the internet (sendmail is currently configured not to queue mail, I'm > going to get round to that Real Soon Now). Before I set up ppp -auto (and > disabled the sendmail daemon), there was no problem with this (or is this a > red herring?). I suspect that what is happening is that the mail is being > interpreted as being sent to dmg@dmg.cc.ic.ac.uk (ie. me at full name of my > host as defnined in sysconfig) which is then being sent over PPP (because I > have no sendmail daemon listening on my box?), munged by Imperial's mail > system to dmg@ic.ac.uk and delivered to my POP mailbox. Try adding your host name to /etc/sendmail.cw. This tells sendmail to send mail destined to your machine must be delivered locally. Note that your hostname doesn't really exist. gdi,ttyp0,/usr/X11R6/bin,151>host dmg.cc.ic.ac.uk Host not found. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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