Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local

V.I.Victor idmc_vivr at intgdev.com
Tue Apr 3 14:40:48 UTC 2007


>Your domain is not set correctly, or you set it to athome.net.  Sendmail is 
>just trying to deliver the email.  Normally you don't need the domain to 
>send to root.  As long as you have root defined in /etc/mail/aliases you 
>should be able to send to just root.
>
>@reboot /bin/echo "reboot" |/usr/bin/mail -s "start-up at `date`" root


Thanks for the quick answer.  

Unfortunately, sending to just "root" does exactly the same as "root at localhost"

I agree I proabably set something wrong *years* ago -- but it's only showing up today!!

I'm really unsure where to change what.


>At 08:34 AM 4/3/2007, V.I.Victor wrote:
>>Somthing changed -- literally overnight!  Or perhaps, some old problem is 
>>just showing up.
>>
>>All my log reports, et cetera are stuck in mqueue.
>>
>>Example -- for years, the following line has been in root's crontab: 
>>(sorry if folded)
>>
>>@reboot /bin/echo "reboot" |/usr/bin/mail -s "start-up at `date`" 
>>root at localhost
>>
>>
>>It has worked without any problems delivering an email indicating start-up 
>>time.
>>
>>
>>Now...  Well, here's some lines from the 'mqueue' file:
>>
>>H??Received: from zebra.athome.net (localhost.athome.net [127.0.0.1])
>>         by zebra.athome.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l33AFhEA000481
>>         for <root at zebra.athome.net>; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 06:15:44 -0400 (EDT)
>>         (envelope-from root at ld2.networksolutions.com)
>>H??Received: (from root at localhost)
>>         by zebra.athome.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id l33AFhqS000433
>>         for root at localhost; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 06:15:43 -0400 (EDT)
>>         (envelope-from root)
>>
>>It seems that my local network name of "athome.net" is being "evaluated."
>>
>> >From 'whois athome.net' --
>>
>>    Domain Name: ATHOME.NET
>>    Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
>>    Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
>>    Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
>>    Name Server: NS3.LAMEDELEGATION.NET
>>    Name Server: NS4.LAMEDELEGATION.NET
>>    Status: clientTransferProhibited
>>    Updated Date: 02-apr-2007
>>    Creation Date: 30-nov-1999
>>    Expiration Date: 30-nov-2015
>>
>>It's been around since 1999, but was updated yesterday.
>>
>>
>>I'm assuming I did something wrong years back in my 'sendmail' setup.  At 
>>this point, I certainly don't remember the whys & hows of what I did!
>>
>>Could someone *please* help?
>>
>>Thanks! V
>>
>>
>>
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