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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:28:02 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@wetter.physik.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail problems
Message-ID:  <20001023162802.D36922@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010231520460.10199-100000@wetter.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@wetter.physik.uni-mainz.de on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:26:30PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010231520460.10199-100000@wetter.physik.uni-mainz.de>

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On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:26:30PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Since three days I get no delivered email, sendmail reports an error in
> /var/log/maillog like this:
> 
> Oct 23 15:00:31 <mail.err> ipamzlx mail.local: lockmailbox /var/mail/root
> failed; error code 75 
> 
> Ownership of /var/mail is root:mail, access code is 775.
> 
> This problem occurs since three days, all mails have been queued for that
> time but I do not have any kind of access to it.
> 
> Does anybody has any idea what's going on?
> 
> A while ago I deleted by mistake my sendmail.cf file in /etc/mail. I
> grabbed one of the default files found in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf
> (generic-bsd.4.4.cf), but I saw that the original file, taken from a
> freshly installed system was bigger, so I copied this one. Can anybody
> tell me how to create the standard sendmail.cf file out of the source
> distributed by FreeBSD? I do not have any special things configured, so it
> should be approach what I need simply creating the standard file ...
> 
cd /usr/src/etc/sendmail; make etc-sendmail.cf

will build and install (under /etc/mail) the standard FreeBSD sendmail
configuration file.

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