[BUGS] Much ado about Sendmail

[jonathan michaels]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:41:10PM +1100, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> 
> On 08/01/2008, at 10:10 PM, Trevor Roydhouse wrote:
> 
> >
> >>> I simply add my email to the root alias in the mail aliases file :)
> >
> > Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> >
> >> As do I..
> >>
> >> But the system still sends mail to roots alias AS root, which means  
> >> it
> >> doesn't get masqueraded and thus is rejected by the mail server
> >> because root at somebox.somedomain.com doesn't exist as far as the  
> >> server
> >> is concerned, however root at somedomain.com it would be perfectly happy
> >> to accept..
> >
> > All my mail destined for root gets delivered locally on the respective
> > machine. What did you change to make it otherwise? :)
> 
> I set the alias root: to an external address =p

yes, i have done that as well

but i do not understand this bit ...

> Which is what I usually do because I don't have time to log in to  
> every server and check the mail, 

ok we all can't have teh benefits of being an invalid pensioner
.. grin, sort off, attempting funny, ok

> I need it all sent to a central location, which is why I have
> a nice big imap storage space it all goes to.. 

ok, i can see that you would have a few more hosts remote
managed hosts than i do

> I generally change the name of root in the passwd data base to
> reflect what server it is, rather than 'charlie root'.. 

actually this is avery good idea, it makes sence (ok to me) on teh surface

> But in this case I need to use masquerading for the server to
> accept mail from the box,

and this is where it starts to get messy/hairy/strange fro me,
either i have missd teh point completely or you are doing
something completely strange that i cannot fathom, because on
my system(s) i change the root: alias to me, call me a
narcissist.

> so either the system mail needs to NOT come from root or root
> needs to get its address masqueraded, assuming that doesn't
> break internal stuff..

why does it "need" to be so ?? and /or what sort of 'system
mail' reporting are you talking about ?? because the basic
maintenace stuff taken care of by the root crontab
'maintenance' stuff done over night, i call mine midnight
maintenance, in memory of a bygone age of mail/news transport
philosophies, as a homage if you will.

on my v6.2 based (as well as teh lone v2,2,5) hosts all teh
maintenance "mail" gets converted to j,,,mi.. as per teh root:
alias, now this all comes to the at caamor dot com dot au
aliased address and my mua then sorts it via the way that mutt
as avaliable .. i choose Subject: as teh subject: has the
machine name from which teh report has come .. relatively
simple .. now as regards those fancy gui mua i don't have a
clue as i am only starting with evolution and i don't hardly
use it as it just takes tooooo much horsepower to run.

if tehat teh mail you are talking about it not a real
issue/problem, i don't think ?

but, well the other kinds of reporting via syslog i thik its
called that can be redirected by setting up a "loghost" in your
dns service and tehn all teh syslog stuff goes to the nominated
host .. there are some "security" issues as i've read from time
to time but don't recall at this point in time..

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