Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:17:28 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail configuration on FreeBSD - problem solved. Message-ID: <20010730001728.E7149@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <20010724233118.A10778@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> References: <20010724233118.A10778@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>
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Hello everyone - especially those who tried to help me with this silly problem I have been having with Sendmail. I have a pennance to perform for doing something infinitely foolish. My MUA, mutt is now the only mail reader I use. As a result I have a set config that I move from one machine to another. I moved this from my Linux machines to the FreeBSD machines I am bringing up to speed. Anyway, a funny thing happened. Well, not really funny. When I initially configured Mutt, I started with the sample linux based config, which for some reason had the sendmail path as /usr/lib/sendmail. This was the place to find it on both RH6.2 and Mandrake 7.1. Well, obviously this is a rather foolish place to put Sendmail, and in fact Linux actually puts it in /usr/sbin/ then links it to /usr/lib/ which I didn't know. Of course FreeBSD avoids this foolishness by simply putting it in /usr/sbin/. Anyway, as you may have guessed by now, I assumed there was something wrong with my sendmail config, when it was really my 'perfectly good' mutt config, pointing to sendmail in the wrong place. I would like to profusely apologise to (and thank!) those who tried to help me with this problem. I will endeavor to avoid making such an ass of myself in the future (_!_). Thanks again! Lou On 07/24/01 11:31 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: > Hey all. I am getting annoyed with this default sendmail stuff. I am > trying to set up sendmail to deliver all outgoing mail to a 'smart > host' as I am with my Linux box. I used the define(SMART_HOST) > directive, but no good. I even tried MASQUERADE_AS. No good. I > wonder if anyone has any other ideas? > > This is what I get when sending mail: > > Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.). > > I am also getting a lot of these messages in /var/log/messages: > Jul 24 23:12:05 acadia sendmail[98415]: f6P3C4898415: Losing > ./qff6P3C4898415: savemail panic > Jul 24 23:12:05 acadia sendmail[98415]: f6P3C4898415: SYSERR(root): > savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere > > Any ideas? > > Here is what I want to do ultimately: > MTA: Sendmail > MDA: Cyrus Imap > Filter: Procmail > MUA: Mutt > > As I found out when I began using mutt, I need sendmail to be able to > relay outgoing messages to a specific smtp host. My Mandrake system > at work seems to do this without sendmail, but I haven't bothered to > investigate it. > > On my RH 6.2 system at home, I am running the setup I have described > above. Procmail calls the cyrus deliver program to drop the filtered > messages into the correct folder. Works great there. > > I know I am missing something, but I can't find it myself. Any help? > > Thanks in advance. > > Lou > > -- > Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ > > There are always alternatives. > -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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