Re: [PLUG] sendmail woes

[Mental Patient <mental@neverlight.com>]

Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> I have been having troubles w/ sendmail for a while. I have spent hours
> reading docs.
>
> Here's my problem.
>
> I installed sendmail under debian 3.0, and I can't seem to be able to send
> mail which is funny b/c I figured I'd be able to send mail, but not get
> it, if there was any problem at all.
>
> Here's the error from mutt:
>
> Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.).
>
> Pine will just plain crash on me.
>
> This is when sending email to myself on the same machine, the
> misconfigured one. I can get mail, but when I reply to it, mutt says mail
> was send, but it never gets there. Pine, characteristically, crashes.


Lets take mutt and pine out of the picture for now.

Does sendmail work on the commandline? Can you do something like this:
/usr/lib/sendmail -v user@localhost < /etc/resolv.conf

That should mail you a copy of the resolv.conf.

Does it crash?
If so, what is the error?

Does it work but not deliver?
If so, what is the output of /usr/lib/sendmail -bv user@localhost
what is the output of mailq?

Does it work for root vs a normal user? What version of sendmail? Newer 
versions have changed some permissions on certain files. Check the 
website, I belive they tell you how to let it work with cli programs.

If you're havning problems with delivery, try starting up in debug mode.
/usr/lib/sendmail -bt

at the > prompt type ? for a list of commands. /parse is useful for 
debugging local issues.

When configuring sendmail, what'd you have in your .mc file?





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