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Re: all outgoing mail is written as userlocalhost.localdomain

From: Aaron Harwood (aharwoodcs.mu.oz.au)
Date: Mon Nov 21 2005 - 07:11:38 CST


On 21/11/2005, at 11:54 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote:

> On Monday 2005-November-21 06:44, Aaron Harwood wrote:
>
>>> Uninstall sendmail!
>>>
>>
>> /usr/sbin/serviceconf reports that sendmail is not running.
>>
>> Something must be calling it, but what?
>>
>
> If uninstalled, nothing could call it.
>
> My guess would be that the sendmail(1) binary from sendmail is being
> called. You should be using the sendmail from Postfix, if that is the
> MTA you wish to use.

The main.cf file for postfix has sendmail.postfix as the sendmail to
use. I guess that program is reporting itself as sendmail in the log
file.

--aaron