[17732] in Athena Bugs
linux 8.3.30: sendmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Wed Apr 5 07:20:27 2000
Message-Id: <200004041926.PAA31697@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 15:26:44 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
System name: Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 8.3.30
(Layered RedHat-Athena)
Mail sent to beland@press-your-luck.mit.edu gets deposited locally in
/var/spool/mail, by default. Mail sent to
root@press-your-luck.mit.edu gets piped to /dev/null.
The desired behavior (and the behavior under RHA 5.2) is for mail sent
to user@some-host.mit.edu to be bounced to user@mit.edu, unless the
address is defines as deliverable locally, as for root. I usually
configure /etc/aliases to bounce root to me at beland@mit.edu, so
errors and letters sent there get read. I think the default behavior
for root on private machines should be to spool it locally, so it can
be accessed when the owner logs in as root.
This may be related to the bug listed on http://web.mit.edu/als/www/:
- /etc/athena/sendmail.conf is missing
-Beland
