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In article <79f60f$c6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, mab@helion.demon.co.uk
writes
>A warning for anyone installing linux for the first time who has an ISP that
>supports users receiving e-mail via SMTP (aswell as, or instead of POP3) -
>Demon Internet being a prime example:
>
>The RedHat 5.2 installation (and others), by default, runs sendmail at
>startup. This will cause you a problem if you haven't set up users on Linux
>that correspond to the e-mail addresses at which people send you e-mail - as
>soon as you connect, sendmail swings into action and receives all waiting
>mail via SMTP but it will bounce all mail for users it doesn't know about
>which is probably all of them (unless your e-mail address is
>root@yourdomain.com!).
>
>eg:  my e-mail address is mab@helion.demon.co.uk, mab is not set up as a user
>on my linux system so all e-mail to mab gets bounced (not anymore!).
>
>The thing do to, especially if you want to use POP3 to recieve your e-mail
>(like I do) is just to remove sendmail from the startup files.
>
>I only lost about 10 e-mails because of this - hopefully this will help
>someone else to not lose any.

You should be able to cure this by adding entries in /etc/aliases to
redirect mail to actual users.  It's also worth having entries for
addresses such as postmaster etc, which you might want to redirect to
root.  Once you've edited /etc/aliases you have to run a script to
activate those changes.  I think you just type newaliases, though I
can't remember. I believe the Redhat installation gives you a
default /etc/aliases file which includes a remark detailing which
script to run.

I've got sendmail working great for my SMTP mail.  It's a very powerful
and impressive program if set up correctly, and it seems a shame to
remove it unnecessarily!!

Neil
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Neil Durant                                        Demon Internet Ltd.
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