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On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:56:08 GMT, Sutrice wrote:
>In article <D2NhbGAeetv2wBSt@turnpike.com>,
>  Neil Durant <ndurant@turnpike.com> wrote:
>> In article <79f60f$c6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, mab@helion.demon.co.uk
>> writes
>..
>> >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!).
>..
>>
>> 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.
>..
>
>This is a known configuration "gotcha" for users of ISPs like Demon (and it
>_is_ annoying!)  I believe the sendmail.cf from this site gives a tidier way
>to solve the problem.  All mail to unrecognised users are relayed to
>postmaster.
>
>You simply have to define LUSER_RELAY to be local:postmaster.
>
>http://www.cabaret.demon.co.uk/mail.html#3
>
>Once you have your recognised users set up, it's probably wise these days to
>turn off this behavior.
>
>http://www.cabaret.demon.co.uk/mail.html#3

Maybe it's a good idea to put a couple of common sendmail and possibly 
others MTA config files on a web page, it don't really care who's website. I'm
gonna put my sendmail config file (with Anti Spam stuff, see other thread)
on my site. There are a couple of others who also have config files on their
site eg. ww.hopf.demon.co.uk. But i figure it would be nice to have a
collection of config files which are commonnly used on a central site. So when
new/other user's ask about setting up mail for use with demon we can just point
them to that central site.

If there already is such a site i'd like to know.

Cheers.
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