Chris wrote: > However, I do not run a mail server, the offending msg came from the fact > that every 4hrs I restart spamd and have the output of the crontab mailed > to me. I also have the results of the rootkit hunter cronjob mailed to me > daily. Is the problem caused by the fact that the mail is sent from > chris.localdomain to EL?
If that mail is from a local machine to another local machine then I would create a transport map (thinking of postfix here) so that local mail is sent completely locally. Only non-local mail would go out to the external ISP mail relay. Why require external networking for a completely local task? A postfix specific entry in the transport map would be: *.localdomain smtp: If the message is anything.localdomain then send it directly there by SMTP. Any other message falls through and does whatever you have previously configured for it to do. If you have a relayhost set to your ISP then it is sent there normally. Other MTAs have similar capabilities. Bob
