Re: email server problems

[Andreas Kostyrka <andreas mtg co at>]

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Dean Michael Dorman wrote:

> Admittedly I have never been able to configure an email server though I have
> tried several times.  My friends tell me they use an old sendmail and
> qpopper that worked out of the box.  I am not so lucky.  Running sendmail
> 8.9.1 & qpopper 2.53 (or 2.54), I cannot send email to my local accounts but
> I can send from them.  This is the eror I get:
> 
>   ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----
> <xxxxx xxxxx net>
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 451 Cannot exec /usr/libexec/mail.local: No such file or directory
> 451 <xxxxx xxxxx net>... Operating system error
> Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
> Will keep trying until message is 5 days old
> 
> I tried compiling several different sendmail.cf files but none work.  It
> would be nice if there was a clear and concise HOW-TO on setting up an email
> server.  The closest one I have seen doesn't talk directly to that subject.
> Can anyone instruct me on how to set up an email server from square 1
> please?
Did you use a .mc file? 
What's wrong with the RH5.2 distributed sendmail/imapd?

Your obvious error is, that it tries to use /usr/libexec/mail.local to
deliver local mail, while RH5 seems to use procmail. Seems like RH doesn't
even come with any other local delivery agents. So grab yourself the
redhat.mc file and use it to generate your sendmail.cf :)

You could even consider reading a bit of www.sendmail.org :)
AND there is this nice THIN sendmail book by O'Reilly (sendmail can do
quite fascinating things with your Emails ;) )

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Ok, consider this email canceled ;)

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