On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: > I'm using the fetchmail-procmail-sendmail combo to get mail off of a > mailserver, filter it, and read it locally. I'm using that same mail > server to pass sent mail to. > > In this case, I don't know if sendmail is overkill and if I should be > using something different. > > What I'd like to fix is this... > > When fetchmail gets mail, I think it passes it to sendmail which > checks to make sure the domain exists.
AFAIK, it is actually trying to work out where to deliver email: it is using the DNS servers to try to work out the final destination for the email. This behaviour is likely to be because of the usage of sendmail as a mail gateway, though of course you yourself are not using it as such. All you need to do (I think) is to make sure that in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file you have the hosts line as dns first and then files. Hence: hosts: dns files networks: files Thus if your dns servers are down then your computer will fall back on the files, in which case all you probably need is an entry or two in /etc/hosts with a localhost entry and your hostname entry. Personally I use postfix but the configuration is very similar to sendmail. I could of course be very wrong here! Matthew > Today, my DNS servers listed > in /etc/resolv.conf were down, and all the mail I fetched got bounced > and lost. I'd like for this not to happen and get any and all mail > that is in my box no matter if it's spam and has an unresolvable > domain or not. How can I set this up? > > Thanks, > Rob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >