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Operating Systems Solaris sendmail "root... User address required." error Post 302123697 by praxis22 on Tuesday 26th of June 2007 07:09:20 PM

06-26-2007

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Originally Posted by csgonan

I found if I removed the LOCAL_USER(`root')dnl
from the submit.mc, I do not get the error. The problem is mail is masquarading as root@domain.com and the exchange server doesn't know what to do with it.

How can I get local root mail to stay local.

THanks

You have many choices.

using and entry in the aliases file
redirecting from virtusertable to another address.
redirect to the aliases file from the access file.

I suggest you go to http://sendmail.org/doc/ and read up, they have an install guide available as a pdf. read it.

Sendmail is "complicated"

At the very least you domain will need to really exist, (as in, visible to a DNS query) if you just want root mail to work, then make sure you have mailhost listed as an alias of 127.0.0.1 (or your IP address)
It is considerably easier if you're just mucking about with UNIX/Linux to install a mail client, (Thunderbird) and have it use gmail as a server.

If you're actually doing this for real, then you need to know what you're doing, so you need to read the document. If you don't know what you're doing don't put an insecure Sendmail system on the internet.

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sendmailconfig

SENDMAILCONFIG(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 SENDMAILCONFIG(8)

NAME

       sendmailconfig - configure sendmail for Debian systems

SYNOPSIS

       sendmailconfig [--no-reload]

DESCRIPTION

       sendmailconfig is used to simplify the configuration of sendmail(8) for use on Debian systems.

       In  the	simplest  case,  you  may  run	this program to (re)configure sendmail for your Debian system at any time. It will modify the file
       /etc/mail/sendmail.mc in order to create a working sendmail configuration which will be written to the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.

       For advanced configurations, you can modify the sendmail.mc file before generating sendmail.cf. Future invokations of  sendmailconfig  will
       preserve these changes provided they are made at the end of the file.

       Normally  sendmailconfig  will  ask  if	you want to reload sendmail after making changes to its configuration. The --no-reload option will
       avoid this question.

FILES

       /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
	      sendmail m4 input to generate sendmail.cf

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
	      actual sendmail configuration file

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cw
	      names for which we will accept mail in the standard configuration

       /etc/mail/sendmail.ct
	      names of trusted users in the standard configuration

SEE ALSO

       sendmail(8)

AUTHOR

       Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>

								    21-Jan-1997 						 SENDMAILCONFIG(8)