[CentOS] root at localhost email problem

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 05.07.2005 schrieb Melinda Odom um 3:35:

> I have another problem with the email root at localhost not working now on
> centos 3.5 with plesk.

That is no public valid email address.

> This has always worked in the past.  Anytime I test my ecommerce store the
> default email address has been root at localhost and has sent an email to my
> domain email address when testing.  Just recently this has stopped working.
> The ecommerce store is php.  I contacted the ecommerce store developer and
> root at localhost works for him and he is hosting at Pair Networks.

You should not mail as root! Even not for testing purposes, as root acts
different than other mortal users.

> This is a reply from plesk about cgi recently on my cgi forms that were
> working, stopped working, and somehow started working again without anyone
> finding the problem:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> "Actually root at localhost shouldn't work at all. The point is that qmail
> unlike sendmail is unable to pass messages via the system mail delivery into
> the /var/spool/mail/username file. It works only via SMTP. Please use an
> actual mail address in your cgi scripts." 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

So you are running qmail if I interpret the helpdesk reply correctly?

> Since the ecommerce store is php and root at localhost has been working for
> months is there someplace I can look to try to find the problem?

Why at all do you send with root at localhost? The PHP application is very
very hopefully not running with root's permissions!
Or do you intend to send to root at localhost? There would be no reason to
do so. Like the helpdesk says, use a valid user address in your scripts.

> Melinda Odom

Alexander


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