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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 2003 08:37:13 -0800
From:      Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@freebsd.org>
To:        "Evan Dower" <evantd@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail: no local mailer
Message-ID:  <16011.4537.279737.406477@horsey.gshapiro.net>
In-Reply-To: <F132syzrKULj1cdY4Qh0003e02d@hotmail.com>
References:  <F132syzrKULj1cdY4Qh0003e02d@hotmail.com>

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evantd> Sendmail has not been working on my system for some time now. I
evantd> can't say exactly how long, but my guess is that it broke when I
evantd> upgraded to RELENG_5_0. This is how sendmail is invoked (by
evantd> default) and it's output.

evantd> # sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost
evantd> 451 4.0.0 No local mailer defined: Bad address
evantd> 554 5.0.0 QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf is a bogus (empty?) file.  One way to fix this is:

cd /etc/mail
mv sendmail.cf sendmail.cf~bogus
make
make restart



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