You might be in confusion. If you are typing the only user name without
domain name, automatically it knows the user is local and passit to
procmail.
If you are specifing the domain name it will seeks the help of DNS to get
the IP of that domain.
Kiran
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Michael Burger wrote:
> You're half correct. Sendmail has to know that the user is local,
> and it then passes the message to procmail to process.
>
> The problem, as it appears to me, without having any further data, is
> that Sendmail probably knows that it's supposed to deliver to users
> at the system name, but may not know that it's also supposed to
> accept mail for just the domain name, too, and may be rejecting the
> mail based on that.
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:47:45 +0530 (IST), Kiran Kumar M wrote:
>
> >
> >It is using procmail for local users not by sendmail.
> >
> >Kiran
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Deependra B. Tandukar wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings!
> >>
> >> My sendmail works but when I send email to local users([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in a
> >> linux box. It doesn't go. In mail in gives the error [EMAIL PROTECTED] has
> >> fatal error. But when mail is sent with the user name only (user), it works
> >> perfectly.
> >>
> >> Can anybody trace out the problem?
> >>
> >> Looking forward to hearing from you.
> >>
> >> regards
> >> DT
> >>
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