email alias issue

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Well, since I was mentioned ....

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.

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".

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

Thanks to Redhat's organized configuration files, it did the trick. A minute
later, emails were going out without a problem.

2011/7/20 ik <idokan at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 23:55, Geoff Shang <geoff at quitelikely.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, ik wrote:
>>
>>  2011/7/19 Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a weird issue with /etc/aliases
>>>> I've setup the root to send emails to my email (hetz at benhamo.org) and
>>>> ran
>>>> the newaliases command to rebuild the aliases db file.
>>>> I've restarted sendmail.
>>>>
>>>> And yet, sendmail simply ignores this alias and tries to send emails to
>>>> root at benhamo.org (which of course doesn't exists).
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes, DON'T work with sendmail
>>>
>>
>> <rant>
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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.
> 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 ?
>
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> And if you *must* say "get a dog", at least say why.
>>
>
> Wrong way example that does not suite the issue at hand.
> 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"
>
>
>> </rant>
>>
>> Geoff.
>
>
> Ido
>
>>
>>
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