strange sendmail behavir

[Jack Craig]

did you run /etc/mail/make after db files update?


On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Steven Stern <
subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:

> On 05/18/2014 01:37 PM, Jack Craig wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Steven Stern
> > <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com <mailto:subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     I have root aliased to "webmaster at mydomain.com
> >     <mailto:webmaster at mydomain.com>" in /etc/aliases.  When I
> >     use "sendmail -bv root", it shows that the mail will be send to
> >     "webmaster at mydomain.com <mailto:webmaster at mydomain.com>".
> >
> >     But when I use "mail root", the mail goes to
> >     "root at mylocalhost.mydomain.com <mailto:root at mylocalhost.mydomain.com
> >".
> >
> >     Mail is handled by a SMARTHOST statement going out to a gmail mx
> server,
> >     but the problem remains if I let it default to finding an MX on its
> own.
> >
> >     I'm baffled.
> >     --
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> >
> > *you might try some of these sendmail debug chants, ...*
> >
> >    cat /var/log/maillog | grep -c 'reject='
> >
> > to reset service
> >
> >    /etc/init.d/sendmail {start|stop|restart}
> >
> > sendmail logging levels
> >
> > /-d0     General debugging.
> > -d1     Show send information.
> > -d2     End with finis( ).
> > -d3     Print the load average.
> > -d4     Enough disk space.
> > -d5     Show events.
> > -d6     Show failed mail.
> > -d7     The queue file name.
> > -d8     DNS name resolution.
> > -d9     Trace RFC1413 queries.
> > -d9.1     Make host name canonical.
> > -d10     Show recipient delivery.
> > -d11     Trace delivery.
> > -d12     Show mapping of relative host.
> > -d13     Show delivery.
> > -d14     Show header field commas.
> > -d15     Show network get request activity.
> > -d16     Outgoing connections.
> > -d17     List MX hosts./
> >
> > 12 SMTP connects logged at LOG_INFO.
> > 13 Log bad user shells, world-writable files, and other questionable
> > situations.
> > 14 Connection refusals logged at LOG_INFO.
> > 15 All incoming and outgoing SMTP commands and their arguments logged at
> > LOG_INFO.
> >
> >
> > sendmail -v -d0.15 -bv jackc
> >
> >
> >
>
> When I run  it from the command line, it looks OK. But when it gets to
> Google, the header does not include "for <webmaster at mydomain.com>".
> It's addressed to "root at anothermachineonmynetwork.mydomain.com".  When I
> send from an identically configured CentOS machine, the "for" line appears.
>
> I've gone so far as to copy /etc/mail/* and /etc/aliases* from that
> CentOS machine to my Fedora machine, but that doesn't fix the problem.
>
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