On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:09 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > Dave Nebinger wrote: > > >> I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: > >> > >> send-mail: RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (504 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) > >> Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 > > > > > > What MTA are you using, Colleen? That will be the first step to > > helping you to configure to allow deliveries to localhost. > > I'm using the Gentoo default, ssmtp. I tried to emerge sendmail, but it > is blocked by ssmtp. I didn't know if I should go ahead and unmerge > ssmtp and emerge sendmail or not. I only really need it for this one > function. > > Take care, > > Colleen You could stay with ssmtp, just edit the config file (i think it's /etc/ssmtp.conf or something). It doesn't do aliases, but you can set ONE alias for all destination uids under 1000.
Alternatively, you can unmerge ssmtp and emerge sendmail (or better yet, in my opionion, postfix). ssmtp is just a real simple and basic mta for forwarding to a mail relay host. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
