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Re: all outgoing mail is written as userlocalhost.localdomain

From: John Peach (postfixjohnpeach.com)
Date: Mon Nov 21 2005 - 07:25:45 CST


On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:11:38 +1100
Aaron Harwood <aharwoodcs.mu.oz.au> wrote:

>
> 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.

You guess wrong. Sendmail is reporting itself as sendmail. UNINSTALL
sendmail, then it can no longer get called.