Hurray! With the addition of a make install, that worked wonderfully. I have no idea what was wrong with my sendmail.cf but at least now I can read the output from periodic.
Thanks a lot,
Evan Dower


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evantd> Sendmail has not been working on my system for some time now. I
evantd> can't say exactly how long, but my guess is that it broke when I
evantd> upgraded to RELENG_5_0. This is how sendmail is invoked (by
evantd> default) and it's output.

evantd> # sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost
evantd> 451 4.0.0 No local mailer defined: Bad address
evantd> 554 5.0.0 QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf is a bogus (empty?) file. One way to fix this is:

cd /etc/mail
mv sendmail.cf sendmail.cf~bogus
make
make restart



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