From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dar=EDo_Mariani?= Subject: Re: mail problem:local users can't receive mail Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:15:57 -0300 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40323E3D.1050205@fi.uba.ar> References: <5.2.1.1.0.20040217071834.00ae8800@mustang> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20040217071834.00ae8800@mustang> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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 > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >