mail problem:local users can't receive mail

mail problem:local users can't receive mail

[vick Julius]

Hi
I am using Linux (mandrake 9.1) and sendmail  8-12.8.
in the Mlocal line in sendmail.cf it uses procmail instead of /bin/mail.

When I send mail from my machine to outside users (to another machine) it 
works fine. When I send mail to myself with /bin/mail or with a graphical 
tool (such as Kmail), the local users receive nothing (whether in Kmail or 
using /bin/mail)
Do you have any idea?

I think this is related to procmail. How to use procmail to send and to 
receive mail?

Thanks

Vick

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Re: mail problem:local users can't receive mail

[Scott Taylor]

At 09:52 PM 02/16/2004, vick Julius wrote:
>Hi
>I am using Linux (mandrake 9.1) and sendmail  8-12.8.
>in the Mlocal line in sendmail.cf it uses procmail instead of /bin/mail.
>
>When I send mail from my machine to outside users (to another machine) it 
>works fine. When I send mail to myself with /bin/mail or with a graphical 
>tool (such as Kmail), the local users receive nothing (whether in Kmail or 
>using /bin/mail)
>Do you have any idea?
>
>I think this is related to procmail. How to use procmail to send and to 
>receive mail?

Not a huge lot to go on, but check that sendmail knows to send mail to both 
localhost and mydomain.blah

Re: mail problem:local users can't receive mail

[Scott Taylor]

At 07:20 AM 02/17/2004, Scott Taylor wrote:
>At 09:52 PM 02/16/2004, vick Julius wrote:
>>Hi
>>I am using Linux (mandrake 9.1) and sendmail  8-12.8.
>>in the Mlocal line in sendmail.cf it uses procmail instead of /bin/mail.
>>
>>When I send mail from my machine to outside users (to another machine) it 
>>works fine. When I send mail to myself with /bin/mail or with a graphical 
>>tool (such as Kmail), the local users receive nothing (whether in Kmail 
>>or using /bin/mail)
>>Do you have any idea?
>>
>>I think this is related to procmail. How to use procmail to send and to 
>>receive mail?
>
>Not a huge lot to go on, but check that sendmail knows to send mail to 
>both localhost and mydomain.blah


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Re: mail problem:local users can't receive mail

[Darío Mariani]

I think you should use the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc macros, it's easier. 
There check if you have the following lines:

define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail,`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl

And then run:

# make -C /etc/mail

and restart sendmail.

Scott Taylor wrote:
> At 09:52 PM 02/16/2004, vick Julius wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> I am using Linux (mandrake 9.1) and sendmail  8-12.8.
>> in the Mlocal line in sendmail.cf it uses procmail instead of /bin/mail.
>>
>> When I send mail from my machine to outside users (to another machine) 
>> it works fine. When I send mail to myself with /bin/mail or with a 
>> graphical tool (such as Kmail), the local users receive nothing 
>> (whether in Kmail or using /bin/mail)
>> Do you have any idea?
>>
>> I think this is related to procmail. How to use procmail to send and 
>> to receive mail?
> 
> 
> Not a huge lot to go on, but check that sendmail knows to send mail to 
> both localhost and mydomain.blah
> 
> 
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Re: mail problem:local users can't receive mail

[Glynn Clements]

Darío Mariani wrote:

> I think you should use the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc macros, it's easier. 
> There check if you have the following lines:
> 
> define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
> FEATURE(local_procmail,`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
> MAILER(smtp)dnl
> MAILER(procmail)dnl

The purpose of FEATURE(local_procmail) is to make the "local" mailer
use procmail; it's just a simple way of setting the
LOCAL_MAILER_{PATH,ARGS,FLAGS} variables.

Consequently, you should also use MAILER(local), otherwise
FEATURE(local_procmail) has no purpose.

MAILER(procmail) is orthogonal. It adds a separate "procmail" mailer,
but doesn't affect the "local" mailer. The "procmail" mailer won't
actually get used for anything without additional actions, e.g. adding
mailertable entries which use it.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
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