sendmail on 20.04

[Knute Johnson]

>     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 ???
> 
> 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 ?

Without knowing more about your setup I can say that queued mail usually 
has a DNS or domain problem.  From what you said I'm guessing that you 
are using the computer with sendmail on it to send and receive? sendmail 
needs to know its domain.  Posting your sendmail.mc would be very 
helpful.  Make sure you have a host name in your /etc/hosts file with an 
address.

Post your sendmail.mc file and describe your network connection and 
exactly how you are trying to send the email.


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Knute Johnson