joncotes
July 19th, 2009, 09:35 PM
(I don't know if I put this in the correct forum. Please feel free to move it)
I have installed sendmail from source, but it is having some issues.
I am running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
Install steps:
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groupadd smmsp
useradd -g smmsp smmsp
wget ...
cd sendmail-8.14.3/
sh ./Build
sh ./Build install
cd cf/cf/
cp generic-linux.mc sendmail.mc
sh ./Build sendmail.cf
sh ./Build install-cf
mkdir /var/spool/mqueue
touch /etc/mail/aliases
touch /etc/mail/local-host-names
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At this point, I can start sendmail with
sendmail -bd -q20mSending mail works perfectly, but receiving mail does not appear to work. the mailq command shows mail that cannot be delivered because of an Operating system error.
I get the following errors in /var/log/mail.err
Jul 19 13:16:04 myhostname sendmail[7920]: n6JJv331007262: SYSERR(root): Cannot exec /usr/bin/procmail: No such file or directory
Jul 19 13:16:04 myhostname sendmail[7918]: n6JJv331007262: SYSERR(root): putbody: write error: Broken pipeIt's looking into /usr/bin/procmail, which is definitely not there because I haven't installed it. I don't think I want procmail, but I am new to this so I don't know what packages most standard mail configurations use. All I want is mail delivered.
Your thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.
I have installed sendmail from source, but it is having some issues.
I am running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
Install steps:
----------------------------------------------------
groupadd smmsp
useradd -g smmsp smmsp
wget ...
cd sendmail-8.14.3/
sh ./Build
sh ./Build install
cd cf/cf/
cp generic-linux.mc sendmail.mc
sh ./Build sendmail.cf
sh ./Build install-cf
mkdir /var/spool/mqueue
touch /etc/mail/aliases
touch /etc/mail/local-host-names
----------------------------------------------------
At this point, I can start sendmail with
sendmail -bd -q20mSending mail works perfectly, but receiving mail does not appear to work. the mailq command shows mail that cannot be delivered because of an Operating system error.
I get the following errors in /var/log/mail.err
Jul 19 13:16:04 myhostname sendmail[7920]: n6JJv331007262: SYSERR(root): Cannot exec /usr/bin/procmail: No such file or directory
Jul 19 13:16:04 myhostname sendmail[7918]: n6JJv331007262: SYSERR(root): putbody: write error: Broken pipeIt's looking into /usr/bin/procmail, which is definitely not there because I haven't installed it. I don't think I want procmail, but I am new to this so I don't know what packages most standard mail configurations use. All I want is mail delivered.
Your thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.