sendmail

Alfred Hovdestad alfred.hovdestad at usask.ca
Mon Dec 3 22:45:08 UTC 2007



Herta Van den Eynde wrote:
> On 03/12/2007, Mad Unix <madunix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> am trying to setup sendmail server on RHEL5
>> i get the following message
>> Dec  3 15:23:02 linux1 sendmail[5218]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
>> socket
>> Dec  3 15:23:02 linux1 sendmail[5218]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>> opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting
>>
>> How should I setup my sendmail.cf
>>
>>
>>
>> divert(-1)dnl

>> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=smtp.mail.com, Name=MTA')dnl

>>
>> --
>> madunix
> 
> I never set up a sendmail server, but looks like you need a closer
> look at the the top lines of the sendmail.cf you posted: you're
> supposed to edit sendmail.mc (and probably also submit.mc), then run
> "make -C /etc/mail" to create the .cf equivalents.
> One gotcha I learned from setting up sendmail clients: make sure you
> cd to /etc/mail before running "make -C /etc/mail".
> 
> More details on http://www.sendmail.org/
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Herta
> 


Agreed.  I don't expect that your MTA server is smtp.mail.com.  Try 
rebuilding the sendmail.cf and restarting sendmail.  If you still have 
problems, come back to the list.  Or send your sendmail.mc file to the 
list and we can check it out.

    Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE
    University of Saskatchewan




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