the solution at the end

Hello everybody!

I am trying this with Slackware 12.0.

I am trying to send mails to a user on my own machine... for example
$ mail root #root or other user, it's the same
(write subject and body)
and it looks like the mail has been sent, by then I write
mail
and i've got no new mail..
y tried
mail root@localhost
mail root@slackware #slackware is how my machine is called (`hostname` told me :P)
mail root@127.0.0.1
and none of them worked...

so, the first question is... what am i doing wrong? i thought i could send mails that way..

after hours trying to solve this, i thought i needed an smtp sever... so i started up sendmail
but using mail didn't worked... i connected with netcat to port 25 and sendmail answered.. I send a mail with netcat, and sendmail said it was all ok.. but i didn't recived anything...
then i realized that the mails where in queue... /var/spool/mqueue
here is what sendmail tells me (i remove all the mails in mqueue and i only post 1 here)
slackware is at my /etc/hosts (to 127.0.0.1)

any idea?

Thanks

THIS WAS THE SOLUTION
I put in my /etc/hosts file this:

Thanks Irtward for the reply!

A couple of things:

1. It looks like you have your hostname set to be "slackware" and you need an FQDN, like "slackware.mydomain.com".
   
2. You have 127.0.0.1 assigned to "slackware" and you need a FQDN plus localhost definitions. Something like:
   
   Code:

   127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
   127.0.0.1               slackware.mydomain.com slackware

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Do you have procmail installed?

I'm not sure about slackware 12.0, but for more recent versions, "Procmail is required by sendmail to deliver the local mail."

Lyle.

Hi! Thanks! that solved the problem, i put

127.0.0.1 slackware.localhost slackware

in my /etc/hosts file and now it works

Yes I have it, and sendmail is configured to use procmail , at /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf, Patrik left some configurations files to use


Thanks again both!

See you