On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:45:54AM -0700, SM wrote: > At 05:48 20-08-2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >You are correct. Allow me to provide just a little more detail. > >We're assuming that dovecot.confs' 'Mail_location:' has nothing to do > >with the MTA handing off to the 'deliver' LDA. With that being said, no > >matter what the dovecot.confs' 'mail_location:' is set to, and with: > > There are two stages: > > 1. MTA handing off the message to the LDA > > 2. 'deliver' LDA taking the message and delivering it to the > appropriate mailbox. > > The first stage is not determined by the dovecot.conf mail_location setting. > > >the local mailer continues to handle and send the mail to > >/var/mail/<user-name>. Yes we did create another hostname.cf. :=) > > Add the following line to your sendmail .mc file: > > define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',`True')dnl > > and generate a new configuration. Then restart sendmail and test. > > Regards, > -sm >
Per your suggestion: --------- hostname.mc contains: --------- define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',`True')dnl dnl MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) MAILER(dovecot) dnl MAILER(procmail)dnl --------- restarting services ----------- # make cf && make install restart && sleep 10 && /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot restart /usr/bin/m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/ /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 /etc/mail/WORKSTATION.mc > /etc/mail/WORKSTATION.cf install -m 444 /etc/mail/WORKSTATION.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf install -m 444 /etc/mail/WORKSTATION.submit.cf /etc/mail/submit.cf Restarting: sendmail sendmail-clientmqueue. Stopping dovecot. Waiting for PIDS: 5008. Starting dovecot. -------- tail -f /var/log/maillog -------- Aug 20 14:06:06 WORKSTATION sm-mta[5017]: m7KI66XM005017: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=1770, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=IPv4, relay=rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.232] Aug 20 14:06:07 WORKSTATION sm-mta[5018]: m7KI66XM005017: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=32013, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Well you can see 'Mailer(local)' is still in the loop (above) ----------- Below, just for giggles I checked the ~/Maildir; nothing there. the test mail for the above is no doubt in /var/log/maillog. ------------ Aug 20 14:06:56 WORKSTATION dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<email>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.112, lip=192.168.1.112, TLS Aug 20 14:06:56 WORKSTATION dovecot: IMAP(email): Effective uid=1006, gid=1006, home=/home/email Aug 20 14:06:56 WORKSTATION dovecot: IMAP(email): maildir: data=/home/email/Maildir Aug 20 14:06:56 WORKSTATION dovecot: IMAP(email): maildir: root=/home/email/Maildir, index=/home/email/Maildir, control=, inbox= END.
