From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 14:00:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77DF37B404 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:00:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F5A43FDD for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:00:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0303.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.48] helo=mindspring.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 190qHl-0001xF-00; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:00:45 -0800 Message-ID: <3E8B5D40.56C256D9@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 13:59:28 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evan Dower References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4de10f470e868703b4fc515dddff6e594350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail: no local mailer X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 22:00:55 -0000 Note: This should have been posted to -questions, not -current. Evan Dower wrote: > Sendmail has not been working on my system for some time now. I can't say > exactly how long, but my guess is that it broke when I upgraded to > RELENG_5_0. This is how sendmail is invoked (by default) and it's output. > > # sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost > 451 4.0.0 No local mailer defined: Bad address You are missing a local mailer. A local mailer is defined by a line similar to: Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXfmnz9, S=EnvFromSMT P/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP, A=mail.local -l in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Probably, you updated and failed to rebuild and install the sendmail configuration files located in /etc/mail/. > 554 5.0.0 QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set You are missing a line similar to: # queue directory O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Probably this has the same root cause. > The same thing happens if I change "localhost" to "127.0.0.1". I > suspect that the second error (554) will disappear when I get rid > of the first one (451). Does anyone know why it might be misbehaving > like this? Pilot error. -- Terry