sendmail woes

[Gregory Nowak]

Hi Chuck.

Even though you've solved your sendmail problem ... if you ever want to trash sendmail ...

I use qmail to handle the mail for romuald.net.eu.org, and am very happy with it. Some people don't like it for this reason or that, but I haven't yet regretted choosing it to handle the mail for my domain. 

http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html

Greg


On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:38:24PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck 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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