sendmail woes

[John covici]

Well, check the permissions on the queue and other directories -- be
careful the newer versions of sendmail uses two copies of the binary
and you need a sendmail.mc and submit.mc to make this work.  Be sure
to read the SECURITY file and the cf/README to see what is going on.

on Monday 09/30/2002 Charles Hallenbeck(hallenbeck at valstar.net) wrote
 > I have just upgraded my Slackware distro from 8.0 to 8.1 and have
 > everything working okay, except sendmail. I cannot get it to work
 > with the canned configurations, nor with one I compiled myself
 > (with Steve Holmes help).
 > 
 > I am really tempted to abandon sendmail for another smtp program
 > and I wonder what alternatives to sendmail others have used.
 > 
 > In case I am overlooking something obvious, here is the error
 > message I consistently get when running fetchmail to pull down
 > mail from my ISP. Sendmail does not work for outgoing mail
 > either.
 > 
 > In response to fetchmail:
 > 
 > 2 messages for hallenbeck at mail.valstar.net (8519 octets).
 > reading message hallenbeck at mail.valstar.net:1 of 2 (2991 octets)
 > ..fetchmail: SMTP error: 421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write
 > ./dfg8UISIMc001731 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=25): Permission denied
 >  not flushed
 > reading message hallenbeck at mail.valstar.net:2 of 2 (5528 octets)
 > ..fetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error
 > fetchmail: socket error while fetching from in.valstar.net
 > fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
 > fetchmail: terminated with signal 13
 > 
 > ----------
 > 
 > The error on the second message seems to be a side effect of the
 > first one. I get these two errors even if there are more than two
 > messages waiting.
 > 
 > So - what I need is - if you see something obvious here that will
 > help, I would appreciate knowing what it is. Or - if you use an
 > alternative to sendmail and can recommend it, I would like to
 > know about that too.
 > 
 > I am ready to sell this box and dust off my trusty abacus!
 > 
 > Chuck
 > 
 > 
 > 
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         John Covici
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