sendmail on 20.04

[Jerry Geis]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 12:29 PM David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2022-03-21 at 11:38 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> > hi All - I have sendmail configured for incoming email.
> >
> > I send a test email to the box - I have MX records and all that.
> > The EMAIL comes to the box - I see it in the mail.log file.
> > It says "queued" and not sent/delivered.
> >
> > Its just a simple test email address - I was expecting that sendmail
> > would just PUT the new email in the /var/spool/mail/test
> >
> > The email is in /var/spool/mqueue
> >
> > how do I get it actually delivered to the mail box ???
>
> If it's anything like postfix you need to set up an aliases file which
> tells it to deliver email sent to fredbloggs at example.com to fred's
> mailbox. You can have as many email addresses as you like sent to the
> same box.
>
> I never got on with sendmail though.
>
> Dave
>
>
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Thanks for the reply -  based on what you said - I added the email account
to the /etc/aliases file
ran newaliases command - sent another email and it also says queued and not
Sent/Delivered.

Thoughts ?

jerry
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