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Re: procdiag thanks to sean b straw

2003-07-09 10:22:03
At 10:33 2003-07-09 -0600, Eric wrote:
Please note the procmail output....
there are obvious problems but If you could help point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.. I am now going to research the lda issue.. but while I am at it here is the log

hostname: www (www.mydomain.com)

FQDN:

Both of these are things to address. Most likely, mydomain.com is NOT registred to you, and thus you should not use it. I'd be curious as to why the FQDN was reported as blank on your host and why the hostname showed anything more than just the host portion of the domain.

# Determining Mlocal via sendmail diagnostic invocation

NOTE: procmail doesn't appear to be the LDA

To change this, you need to alter the sendmail.mc file and rebuild the sendmail.cf from that, then restard sendmail. Obviously, this must be done by an admin on the host, who should observe caution and follow standard protocols to ensure that they don't irrecoverably trample the existing config. Look the following up in the sendmail documentation:

        FEATURE( `local_procmail' )dnl

# contents of /home/eric/.forward (if it exists)

NOTE: no /home/eric/.forward

This isn't a problem when procmail is the LDA. Otherwise, you need a .forward (per USER) to invoke procmail. My disclaimer page includes information on some effective .forward syntaxes if you end up having to go this route.

NOTE: There is no /etc/procmailrc file.

NOTE: There is no /etc/procmailrcs file.

Not error conditions, just information that the file and dir don't exist (most useful when someone claims they're having problems with their "global" procmail rules not working <g>).

NOTE: There is no /home/eric/Mail file.

0755 2 root root 4096 Wed Jul 9 09:42:13 2003 /home/eric/mail/

These are common dirs for mail storage by MUAs (and therefore, common dirs for people to stuff messages into).

NOTE: There is no /home/eric/.procmail file.

Common dir for people to stuff ancillary procmail recipes into. It doesn't need to exist unless you're actually specifying it in your rcfile.

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 Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering

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