FQDN Misery Re: To: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail? & amavisd-new Install

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 11/08/2007 08:03 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > --- NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> >>
> > Actually I did install rkhunter but it depends on
> > postfix|exim4 and I have postfix installed by
> default
> > on Feisty, I believe.  So, I would have to purge
> > postfix and install exim4. Which, I believe was
> the
> > Debian default when mutt and root mail just
> worked.
> > I'll most likely give exim4 a try if we can't get
> > postfix to send root mail to mutt.  This fqdn
> thing is
> > bewildering and I suspect that
> > username at sysname(ubuntu) would work if
> main.cf(postfix
> > conf) was set up right. Man pages don't help
> because
> > they assume you know too much. I'll stick with
> postfix
> > for now because of the time invested until a
> > conclusion is reached that it wont work or help
> ceases
> > before solution comes. Thanks for this incite. I
> was
> > thinking the same about exim4. Even as hard as
> Debian
> > was to set up(reason I came to Ubuntu) mutt and
> root
> > mail just worked.
> > 
> >> $ sudo apt-get install rkhunter
> >> [sudo] password for gg:
> >> Reading package lists... Done
> >> Building dependency tree
> >> Reading state information... Done
> >> The following extra packages will be installed:
> >>   exim4 exim4-base exim4-config
> exim4-daemon-light
> >> libdb4.3
> > 
> > How did you get exim4 ipo postfix? I don't
> remember
> > having a choice installing(upgrading) feisty. 
> Maybe
> > my old mind just forgot; I do a lot of that
> lately,
> > he. he.
> 
> That's what gets installed when I installed
> rkhunter. I've never
> installed exim4 or postfix directly. One of the
> reasons why I removed
> rkhunter was the fact that it installed the MTA. It
> uses it to send an
> email to root after each daily scan & at the time my
> machine was very
> low powered (450Mhz etc) and I didn't want the extra
> overhead.
> 
Ok. I guess there was an ubuntu install popup
requesting to select an MTA and you selected none
while rkhunter prefers exim4 when none is already
installed. If that's the case, I didn't remember(most
likely). But I will keep exim4 in mind if I give up on
postfix. I have a 450Mhtz ubuntu also and it ain't
fast but it's ok for what I do.
Thanks for the additional info.  I haven't done much
to reconfigure postfix, mutt and domain yet answering
email but will start with main.cf, man 5 postconf and 
/usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist and see if I can hack
it out with the suggestions so far.  I'm slow so this
will take me a while but will report on results.

> <snip>


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net