Both localhost and localhost.localdomain are candidatef for appearing to the right of the @ sign, as alternatives to (in your case) hartford-hwp.com . From the failures, it appears that you are trying to use them to the left of the @ sign, as a substitute for brownh . Attempts to do this, quite properly, fail. The userid postion of the address needs to be either a valid account on the system (e.g., brownh or root) or an alias listed in your /etc/aliases file (e.g., postmaster).
So, based solely on these tests, there is NO evidence that sendmail is misconfigured. Bad addresses do bounce, and you do seem to get the bounces. There might be a configuration problem in rmail (an MUA I am unfamiliar with) that causes the bcc attempts to fail, or there may be something else causing that problem (in fetchmail, sendmail, or the ISP's smtp server) ... but nothing you report below helps to sort that one out.
I can't figure out what you are talking about with respect to item #2 in your list of messages.
Finally, in an earlier message you expressed some bewilderment about the term "outbox". This not a compact version of a traditional rural waste disposal system, as your facetious comments seemed to assume, but a place where your MUA stores copies of e-mail messages you have sent. All the MUAs I am familiar with keep them, but as I've said, I am not familiar with rmail. You should see if rmail maintains a maibox called out, or outbox, or sent-messages, or some other plausible synonym; if it does, you could then let us *see* the problem messages (at least the headers) rather than just telling us what you remember, or what you think is important, about them.
At 05:14 PM 12/12/02 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
I defined the To: field in ~/.fetchmailrc. Here's what I'm using now for testingset logfile /opt/tmp/fetchmail_dec12.log poll pop.registeredsite.com proto POP3 user [EMAIL PROTECTED] password XXXX keep smtpname [EMAIL PROTECTED] I now see that I did in fact have emacs set up (setq mail-self-blind t) all along. For some reason, the blind copies did not show up until after I had rebooted the HD. But with this new boot, rmail sees them. I found /var/spool/brownh. Here's what's in it (as I later discovered, of course, rmail can easily read it). ====================== the failed messages ========================== 1. A message rom Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent earlier today (when I booted the present HD? I've not run any mail applications nor gone on line since yesterday with this HD). The mail deliver subsystem reports that the address of my message of the day before had a fatal error. Indeed user [EMAIL PROTECTED] is unknown. But This is a message I sent to "localhost," and that may simply be impossible. Here's the critical part: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- localhost (reason: 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown) (expanded from: localhost) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to hartford-hwp.com.: >>> DATA <<< 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown 550 5.1.1 localhost... User unknown --gBCJn2fL000871.1039722543/hartford-hwp.com Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns; hartford-hwp.com Arrival-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:09:16 -0500 Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; hartford-hwp.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:49:03 -0500 --gBCJn2fL000871.1039722543/hartford-hwp.com Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: <brownh> Received: (from brownh@localhost) by hartford-hwp.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gBBN9Gnd002694; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:09:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:09:16 -0500 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: localhost Subject: test RH8.0 to localhost dec11 1800 Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Also in queue is a message sent to a valid address, which is a mail fowarding server. The message was not fowarded back to me because the target name server timed out. This was not a fatal error. I've not known that I've had trouble with that server. It won't try again until the 16th. The header of this message looks ok, except that Return-Path is not a valid address: Return-Path: <brownh> From: Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. A failed message sent to localhost.localdomain. I don't know that I'd expect such an address to work, especially since it came out as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would you agree that fetchmail or sendmail is misconfigured? Despite the provision for blind copy in the mails, I get nothing back right away. I captured copies of the queue files in case there may be further useful into in them. ========================================================================= I compared /etc/aliases, and found that my alias file lacks: mailer-daemon: postmaster postmaster: root But supplies a range of new aliases such as: sshd: root smmsp: root mailman: root postfix: root netdump: root ldap: root I caputred the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file, but it's too big and complicated for ready analysis. There's a lot different from my old sendmail.cf, but I wouldn't know how to analyse those differences. I rechecked /ect/hosts: 127.0.0.1 hartford-hwp.com localhost.localdomain localhost this seems ok
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