At 05:48 20-08-2008, dovecot@guice.ath.cx wrote:
You are correct. Allow me to provide just a little more detail. We're assuming that dovecot.confs' 'Mail_location:' has nothing to do with the MTA handing off to the 'deliver' LDA. With that being said, no matter what the dovecot.confs' 'mail_location:' is set to, and with:
There are two stages:
MTA handing off the message to the LDA
'deliver' LDA taking the message and delivering it to the appropriate mailbox.
The first stage is not determined by the dovecot.conf mail_location setting.
the local mailer continues to handle and send the mail to /var/mail/<user-name>. Yes we did create another hostname.cf. :=)
Add the following line to your sendmail .mc file:
define(confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',True')dnl
and generate a new configuration. Then restart sendmail and test.
Regards, -sm