OT: Centos 7 and sendmail/mutt, etc

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Mon Mar 25 12:32:26 PDT 2019


Sendmail itself does not create a sent file.  Mutt may be trying to, but
the Fcc options are configurable.  Check /etc/Muttrc for defaults.

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On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 03:22:08PM -0400, scooter6--- via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> On my previous Centos 5.10 server, users could send emails with no issue
> out of whatever filePro program they were running - typically these would
> invoke a system call to a script....but never had any issues
> We have over 65 users - but none really have their own /home directory
> Mainly because they all use one of about 4-5 profiles - so I had their home
> directories set to /usr/user# depending on what menu I wanted invoked for
> them
> 
> So, for example, anyone with a login that begins with 'paa' would have
> their home directory set to /usr/user12
> Only thing in that directory was a .profile file which told what filePro
> menu to execute
> Easy....
> 
> Well, apparently Centos 7 doesn't really like how this works - at least not
> with 'default' installation of sendmail, sendmail-cf etc
> Well, seems sendmail by defaults wants to create a 'sent' file when a user
> sends an email - which, obviously, will make my above /usr//user# home
> directory structure not work very well
> I have looked all around and don't see where I can tell sendmail to NOT
> create this 'sent' file
> 
> Has anyone had a similar setup to this?
> 
> WORST case scenario, I guess I can make home directories for everyone, but
> that's cumbersome with the amount of turn over we can have here etc
> 
> Otherwise, I think I have all over demons accounted for (knock on wood)
> 
> p.s. oh unless you know why if I copied over my CUPS configuration for my
> printers, new Centos 7 complains the 'null' printer - no such printer or
> class
> but that's a relatively minor thing...
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> Scott
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