Re: [TCLUG:20645] Sendmail - Operating system error!

[Adam Maloney <adamm@sihope.com>]

You need to put a local e-mail address in angle brackets after the ruleset
number.

> 3 <root@thishost.veldy.com>
...
> 0 <root@thishost.veldy.com>

it should give you something like:
Parse1	returns: $# local...

Going through ruleset 3 first will return the e-mail address to send to
ruleset 0 after it's checked through aliases, virtusertable and all that
other stuff.  If you're just testing username@localhost you don't need
that though.

If it says that it's going to use the local mailer ($# local) then do:

grep "^Mlocal" /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and make sure that the definition for
the local delivery agent is correct.  It'll probably be looking to use
procmail, so you can test it directly by piping a message right to it.

Here's my definition on whee.org:
Mlocal,         P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9,
S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,

make sure /usr/bin/procmail exists, then see if you can get procmail to
deliver to a local mailbox.  Maybe something as simple as a perm problem
in /var/spool/mail or something.

Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Sihope Communications

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

> I get the following.  No errors.
> 
> [root@cascade cf]# sendmail -bt
> ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
> Enter <ruleset> <address>
> > 3
> No address!
> > 0
> No address!
> > [root@cascade cf]#
> 
> 
> Tom Veldhouse
> veldy@veldy.net
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adam Maloney <adamm@sihope.com>
> To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20645] Sendmail - Operating system error!
> 
> 
> > Are you sure local-host-names is a flat text file and not supposed to be a
> > keyed database?
> >
> > If you do:
> > sendmail -bt
> > > 3 <root@your.machine.com>
> > ...
> > > 0 <root@your.machine.com>
> > ...
> >
> > Do you get any more useful information?  (use EOF to end test mode)
> >
> > see  http://www.telekomnet.com/writer_allan/8-1-00_isp_104.asp by yours
> > truly.  I checked my facts by doing it under Linux, so it should work
> > perfectly.
> >
> > Adam Maloney
> > Systems Administrator
> > Sihope Communications
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > > veldy@veldy.net
> > >
> > > 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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