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I am trying to set up sendmail 8.11.0 (don't ask me why - I
just want to). I have it installed, I have the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf setup via
the generic-linux.mc file.
I am trying to start sendmail in this way :
"/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m" No problem it starts. I can send mail
from the local to computer to any other machine on the net. However, when
I send mail to my machine from elsewhere, or when I send local mail on my
machine - it never arrives. I look at the queue (sendmail -bp) and it
shows two entries in the queue. I have tried to force queue processing
(sendmail -v -q) and I am getting the following errors:
[root@cascade cf]# sendmail -v -q
Running /var/spool/mqueue/e7O0bRn27703 (sequence 1 of
2)
<root@cascade.veldy.net>... Connecting to local... <root@cascade.veldy.net>... Operating system error Running /var/spool/mqueue/e7NKQf427623 (sequence 2 of
2)
<veldy@cascade.veldy.net>... Connecting to local... <veldy@cascade.veldy.net>... Operating system error Currently, it is running under the root user (right now it is
a test box and behind a firewall). I believe all permissions are
correct.
Incidentally, I followed all the instructions in the README
and INSTALL files throughout the distributions (yuck!) to set up sendmail from
source. I originally got the following error when starting
sendmail:
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 63: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/local-host-names': No such file or directory
I created a file called /etc/mail/local-host-names with the
following:
cascade.veldy.net
localhost
I tried many combinations of this to no effect.
I have the latest bind installed on this machine also, but it
is not running. I am using DNS services on another host.
Any help getting through this would be greatly
appreciated.
Tom Veldhouse
P.S. I have appropriated "The Bat Book", but it has been
of no help solving this problem. I am quite sendmail green - I
historically use Postfix.
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