Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:26:03 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail: no local mailer Message-ID: <16011.7467.322808.498405@emerger.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <16011.4537.279737.406477@horsey.gshapiro.net> References: <F132syzrKULj1cdY4Qh0003e02d@hotmail.com> <16011.4537.279737.406477@horsey.gshapiro.net>
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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 This happened on one of my -stable boxes lately when doing a upgrade using buildworld. For some (unknown) reason m4 bombed out and created an empty .cf file. I fixed it by doing something similar to what was done above, although why m4 failed is a mystery.... Nate
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