sendmail woes

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Thanks John,
I have done some of that but will double check. One thing I
noticed is that when running the "make install-cf" command to
install the new compile, it fails because of a missing
"../devtools/bin/install.sh"

So I just copied the new sendmail.cf to where it belongs -- there
is already a submit.cf there, and the docs say that submit.cf is
OS independent.

But it gives me the same errors with the stock files too, so for
starters I would be happy to get those pre-built configurations
to work.

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, John covici wrote:

> 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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