Sendmail (which is smail, anyway) doesn't work either. It neither sends the mail nor returns it to the sender like it claims to. -chris
09:33:06</usr/sbin>$ sendmail root aoeusnaohe 09:33:20</usr/sbin>$ smail: mail moved to /var/spool/smail/error/13FJGC-0006PKC 09:33:43</home/krzys># cat /var/spool/smail/error/13FJGC-0006PKC !root !0 1000 !-oem !-f !<+> !-oMs !cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com !-oMr !bsmtp !-oMP !smail !<krzys> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: krzys Subject: mail failed, returning to sender Reference: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |------------------------- Message log follows: -------------------------| no valid recipients were found for this message |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------| root ... unknown user |------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------| Received: from localhost (69 bytes) by cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com via sendmail with P:stdio/T:error (sender: <krzys>) (ident <krzys> using unix) id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <unknown>; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 2000-Feb-23) Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:33:12 -0700 (PDT) From: krzys (Krzys Majewski) To: root aoeusnaohe 09:33:47</home/krzys># cd /var/spool/mail/ 09:34:22</var/spool/mail># la total 2 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Mar 1 09:59 ./ drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Jul 9 16:24 ../ -rw-rw-r-- 1 krzys mail 0 Feb 6 11:58 krzys On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:58:47AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > 550 You are not permitted to send mail > > localhost isn't in the list of systems that smail will allow to forward > mail through it. How you tell smail about that I don't know. > > > What gives? The only reason I'm trying to set this up is so that > > things like cron jobs will send email to root, as advertised. > > Most things of that sort will use /usr/sbin/sendmail rather than SMTP > to inject mail, bypassing this check. > > -- > Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) > http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ > EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ >