[svlug] Problems with mailserver spamming itself due to loop

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya mark

> Mark wrote:
> We use Fedora/Redhat sendmail 8.13.8-2 (came with Core 6).
 
since its "not working" out of the box:
a) you can try to figure out what they broke .. what files to change
b) download a generic sendmail that should work out of the box

	http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.14.3

if it doesn't work .. always use the latest/greatest ... 
and pull you hair on it instead of old stuff that is broken

> I checked /etc/mail/local-host-names, and I do have the entries you mentioned in there.
> What else could I check for?

dozens of other items in gazillion little files

even better if you had a sendmail.m4 file ( just need about 10 lines ) 
that you used to create sendmail.cf
	- sendmail.cf is typically broken out of the box

some sample sendmail howto
	http://Linux-Sec.net/Mail/sendmail

the sendmail files
	http://linux-sec.net/Mail/etc.mail/

a simple tests:
  root#  mail -v -s "testing localhost" root < /dev/null
	- what does it say

all your mail in clientqueue is fine .. it means "it" doesn't
know how to send to your various end-user mailbox

	- maybe your procmail is "broken"

c ya
alvin