<div dir="rtl"><div dir="ltr">Well, since I was mentioned ....</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Ido, I'm trying to avoid flooding the mailing list with gazillion lines of configuration files, so I started asking a question about domains and sendmail. If someone would have said "show your configuration files", then I would have posted a link for the files without a problem.</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I didn't want to switch from sendmail to another MTA due to a simple reason: the specific server hosts few of my blogs, ticket system, forums and other info that is relevant to many people. People wanted to get notifications email about their tickets, so I can't just tell people "wait, I'm replacing mail server right now, hold on while I'll start configuring it".</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">At the end I created a test VPS server with CentOS 5.6 and sendmail, and I found out that switching from sendmail to exim in CentOS is simple as: yum install -y exim && system-switch-mail exim</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks to Redhat's organized configuration files, it did the trick. A minute later, emails were going out without a problem.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"><div>
2011/7/20 ik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:idokan@gmail.com">idokan@gmail.com</a>></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<div><div class="im">On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 23:55, Geoff Shang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoff@quitelikely.com" target="_blank">geoff@quitelikely.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">
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<div>On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, ik wrote:<br>
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2011/7/19 Hetz Ben Hamo <<a href="mailto:hetzbh@gmail.com" target="_blank">hetzbh@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Hi,<br>
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I have a weird issue with /etc/aliases<br>
I've setup the root to send emails to my email (<a href="mailto:hetz@benhamo.org" target="_blank">hetz@benhamo.org</a>) and ran<br>
the newaliases command to rebuild the aliases db file.<br>
I've restarted sendmail.<br>
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And yet, sendmail simply ignores this alias and tries to send emails to<br>
<a href="mailto:root@benhamo.org" target="_blank">root@benhamo.org</a> (which of course doesn't exists).<br>
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Any suggestions?<br>
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Yes, DON'T work with sendmail<br>
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I really *hate* these sorts of non-answers. They don't help at all with the immediate problem and only really serve to annoy the person asking the question. Yes, I realise that in this case the questioner ended up taking this person's advice, but there may well have been plenty of cases where they might not have been able to. Questions like this don't usually outline the rationale for why they are using the software/hardware/whatever they're asking about, and neither should they have to.<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br>Yes you do. If you are saying I have a problem with something, and want others to help you, you should provide as much as possible information about the issue. Hetz imho gave only limited information about the problem, and where he think that it might be. That's does not helping us to help him, so usually when someone lack of proper information about the whole thing, get an answer as detailed as they provided. <br>
Even though I consider Hetz as a friend, he should know better and provide more information on the subject, such as "I have a new installation" or "old installation" and "here are the entire settings I provided" etc... all of that information even if it seems not very helpful, it might provide a clue for the helpers to help him. Let's assume that you have only 10 reasons why sendmail acts like it acts, don't you think that such information can limit the amount of guess work ?<br>
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If I ask about a problem I'm having with my cat, the last thing I want to hear from someone is that I should have a dog instead. The fact is that I have a cat. There may be good reasons for recommending a dog instead, and I can see why it might be relevent to mention this when answering, but to just say "get a dog" is not at all helpful.<br>
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And if you *must* say "get a dog", at least say why.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Wrong way example that does not suite the issue at hand.<br>If you rant that your cat does not understand your commands, and you want to make it understand it, then "take a dog" is the answer. That's not what you are looking for, please provide additional information or rephrase your question regarding the issue with your cat. Maybe the problem is that the cat keep on getting hurt because it stand on electric oven and get burns, and then the solution is completly different, but when you phrase it that you want an animal that answer commands, the the answer you'll have is "get a dog"<br>
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