Re: sendmail: no local mailer

[Evan Dower]

I agree. In fact, it was. I only posted to -current after receiving no 
response for a few days (since I suspected that it might have been related 
to my upgrade to 5.0). I personally have never messed with sendmail's 
configuration because on my system it functions only as a local mailer. I 
guess that may be one reason for proposing that sendmail be moved out of the 
base system. It has all the power (and the complexity that comes with that 
power) of a full-featured mailer, yet most machines are not mail servers. 
Well, anyway, there's my two cents.
Evan Dower

From: Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 13:59:28 -0800
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Note: This should have been posted to -questions, not -current.

Evan Dower wrote:
> Sendmail has not been working on my system for some time now. I can't 
say
> exactly how long, but my guess is that it broke when I upgraded to
> RELENG_5_0. This is how sendmail is invoked (by default) and it's 
output.
>
> # sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost
> 451 4.0.0 No local mailer defined: Bad address

You are missing a local mailer.  A local mailer is defined by a line
similar to:
Mlocal,         P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXfmnz9, 
S=EnvFromSMT
P/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
                T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP,
                A=mail.local -l

in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.

Probably, you updated and failed to rebuild and install the sendmail
configuration files located in /etc/mail/.
> 554 5.0.0 QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set

You are missing a line similar to:

# queue directory
O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue
in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.  Probably this has the same root cause.

> The same thing happens if I change "localhost" to "127.0.0.1". I
> suspect that the second error (554) will disappear when I get rid
> of the first one (451). Does anyone know why it might be misbehaving
> like this?
Pilot error.

-- Terry


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