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hschneider	Posted: Apr 16 2004, 10:49 AM
No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 6631 Member No.: 195 Joined: 19-June 02	This needs to be export DEFAULT_DOMAIN="cchtml.com" instead of only DEFAULT_DOMAIN="cchtml.com" Pls restart XMail after changes. -------------------- Bye, Harald -- Download XMail Queue Manager 1.46 NOW: XMail Server Tools -- Cross platform remote queue management! -- Message analyzing on the fly! -- Builtin diagnostics knowledge base! -- Manages multiple mail queues! Sponsored by CD-Produktion und DVD-Produktion and Homestaging Saarland - Immobilien schneller verkaufen in der Region Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz und Luxembourg

vegetto34	Posted: Apr 16 2004, 10:57 AM
Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Member No.: 988 Joined: 16-March 04	Edited it and that didn't do anything. Flushed queue, unfroze queue... still stuck messages. DEFAULT_DOMAIN was already listed on "set" through the change in profile and it is still there on set. Do you know anyone else with RedHat 9 that's done this? It must have been something I did, whatever that was, because this seems like such a simple fix.

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Posted: Apr 16 2004, 11:01 AM

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Maybe something system specific. Please try this:

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- Start the crontab editor with 'crontab -e'
- Add a line with your cron message recipient: 'MAILTO=user@your_domain.com'
(your_domain.com has to be a valid XMail domain)
- Exit the editor and restart the cron service.
- For details see the crontab and cron manpages.

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atomant	Posted: Apr 16 2004, 07:05 PM
No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 1776 Member No.: 427 Joined: 18-January 03	For DEFAULT_DOMAIN to work you need to put it in /usr/sbin/sendmail.sh script line: export DEFAULT_DOMAIN=mydomain This way it works 100 % (tested). -------------------- Bye, Sasa ------------------------------------------------------------------- All electric machines work on smoke...when the smoke escape from machines, they don't work anymore Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"

vegetto34	Posted: Apr 17 2004, 05:18 AM
Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Member No.: 988 Joined: 16-March 04	OK I put it in sendmail.sh, but it was a new file... was it supposed to already be there? I see a sendmail.xmail.sh file... should I edit that one? Do I need to do anything special? Reboot? Restart xmail? Or will it work next time Cron runs in 4 hours?

atomant	Posted: Apr 17 2004, 07:26 AM
No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 1776 Member No.: 427 Joined: 18-January 03	Yes, you edit sendmail.xmail.sh. It contains only a few lines. You don't need to restart xmail. Just wait for the next cron to run or run it manually. -------------------- Bye, Sasa ------------------------------------------------------------------- All electric machines work on smoke...when the smoke escape from machines, they don't work anymore Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"

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Posted: Apr 17 2004, 12:09 PM

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QUOTE (atomant @ Apr 17 2004, 07:26 AM)

Yes, you edit sendmail.xmail.sh. It contains only a few lines. You don't need to restart xmail. Just wait for the next cron to run or run it manually.

Success! That finally did it. Man what a piece of work. Was this RH9 exclusive?

I noticed in the crontab file there is a MAILTO line... would it not be possible to allievate all of this mess and say just change it from "root" to "root@domain.com" ? Or if you don't want e-mails just take out "root" and leave it "".

atomant	Posted: Apr 17 2004, 12:17 PM
No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 1776 Member No.: 427 Joined: 18-January 03	No, this was not RH9 exclusive, I have RH8 and this is for all *nix. Yes, you could change MAILTO in crontab or just remove BUT where is the beauty of fixing it to quckly. Well, default domain has it's advantages: if you want to send a mail with the /usr/bin/mail than it will add a domain to a username which is very nice because some mailservers rejects sender without a domain. -------------------- Bye, Sasa ------------------------------------------------------------------- All electric machines work on smoke...when the smoke escape from machines, they don't work anymore Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"

vegetto34	Posted: Jun 7 2004, 06:47 AM
Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Member No.: 988 Joined: 16-March 04	I had to edit the sendmail.xmail.sh again after upgrading to 1.20 as it appears that file got wiped and I was getting sending errors on my Cron runs.

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