From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 16:20:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nameserver.austclear.com.au (nameserver.austclear.com.au [192.83.119.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA7037B422 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 16:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.70.1]) by nameserver.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA69142; Tue, 22 May 2001 09:20:50 +1000 (EST) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.70.1]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02396; Tue, 22 May 2001 09:20:50 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200105212320.JAA02396@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail is broken...I am in deep here Help please! In-Reply-To: Message from =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= of "Mon, 21 May 2001 22:39:05 +1000." <20010521123905.55937.qmail@web12001.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:20:50 +1000 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The error you're getting is an indication that mail.local can't lock the maildrop (/var/mail/). There is a reasonable gap between the sendmail in 3.2 and that in 4.2, and one of the changes is the choice of local mailer. In 3.2 it was: Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qrmn9, S=10/30, R=20/40, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=mail -d $u while in 4.2 it's: Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXfmnz9, S=EnvFromL/H drFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP, A=mail.local -l While this looks a LOT different, the significant differences are in the invocation (A=...), and the flags (F=...). I think that if you change your local mailer definition to: Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXfmnz9, S=10/30, R=20/40, T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP, A=mail.local -l it should resolve your problems. However, my recommendation is that you work out what modifications you made to the standard sendmail install in 3.2, start again with the standard 4.2 sendmail, and re-implement your changes (keeping in mind that the newer sendmail has different names for some of the files, puts everything in /etc/mail, ...). Basically, read the sendmail documentation so you know what you're doing. Cheers, Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message