Re: where sendmail stores received emails
Aaron Konstam <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.seawolf |
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:12:51AM -0800, Gentian Hila wrote: > > I compiled again the sendmail.mc file by commenting with the following line DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA') so created a new sendmail.mc file. Now after i put a entry in /etc/mail/access file for my domain it allows sending to all email addresses that end with that domain. So it accepts email. But i cannot see where the emails accepted are stored. Another redhat user told me that i should have mailbox folders under /var/spool/mail but i do not see any of them. So the strange thing is that sendmail accepts the local mail but i do not know where emails are stored. I'm using a copy of Redhat 7.1 that came together with the Complete reference of Linux (Redhat 7.1 and Caldera). Is any problem with that ? I even reinstalled Redhat on my machine as a server but still the same thing. I was told that if i install REdhat 7.1 as a server, it's not possible to login in graphical mode. But actually it installed X Window and KDE and Gnome. Is anything wrong with th! at! After you changede the sendmail.mc did you run m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf to create a new sendmail.cf which is the file you really need. sendmail by dewfault puts received mail in /var/spool/mail but there are some mail clients that can change that. If tehy do not show up in /var/spool/mail then I would say your machine is not receiving mail. > ? > > But more concerned i'm about Sendmail. Where does it store the email it receives. They are not in queue either > > Any idea what's happenning ? > > Also i declared a MX entry in BIND for my email server, but i do not have any forward options there. So i'm just curious since i haven't gone at that point yet, what do i need to do in order to forward email on internet. Just declare some forward options on BIND named.conf and uncomment the following line on sendmail.mc file > > dnl FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX')dnl > > or do something else on sendmail in order to relay email into another SMTP server ? > > Thanks > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:[email protected]