Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:28:28 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Nagy =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=E1szl=F3?= Zsolt <nagylzs@freemail.hu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail not working? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070314162722.025238b0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <45F867D4.4060405@freemail.hu> References: <45F86213.10604@designaproduct.biz> <6.0.0.22.2.20070314160910.024dc2f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <45F867D4.4060405@freemail.hu>
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Postfix is the mail transfer agent, or MTA. That means it does the local=
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delivery. In a sendmail only server you have two instances of sendmail=20
running one to send the mail, one as the MTA. You need at least one runnin=
g.
-Derek
At 04:23 PM 3/14/2007, Nagy L=E1szl=F3 Zsolt wrote:
>Derek Ragona wrote
>>You need to make sure sendmail is starting and running. Check your=20
>>rc.conf and any variables that might need to be set.
>Thanks!
>
>In my rc.conf:
>
>sendmail_enable=3D"NO"
>
>However, as I wrote, I was using postfix. I'm not a big guru but I believe=
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>that postfix has its own daemon and it has a sendmail binary that is=20
>compatible with the system default sendmail.
>
>Anyway, your comment helped me a lot! I upgraded to 6.2 some weeks ago and=
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>probably I did not reactivate postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf.=20
>Additionally, probably I forgot to merge the old mailer.conf with the new=
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>one. I changed my rc.conf to this:
>
>sendmail_enable=3D"NO"
>postfix_enable=3D"YES"
>
>Then I started postfix:
>
>messias# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix start
>postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
>messias# ps ax | grep postf
>68249 ?? Ss 0:00.01 /usr/local/libexec/postfix/master
>
>Yet I still do not get my emails:
>
>messias# mail gandalf
>Subject: Test3
>.
>EOT
>Null message body; hope that's ok
>messias# mail
>Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
>"/var/mail/gandalf": 1 message
> > 1 MAILER-DAEMON@messia Fri Nov 10 12:27 13/664 "DON'T DELETE THIS=
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> MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA"
>& q
>messias# sendmail gandalf
>Test4.
>.
>messias# mail
>Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
>"/var/mail/gandalf": 1 message
> > 1 MAILER-DAEMON@messia Fri Nov 10 12:27 13/664 "DON'T DELETE THIS=
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> MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA"
>& q
>
>Pawing in the dark...
>
> Laszlo
>
>
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