From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 19 10:14:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [216.123.203.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A03037B4BC; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost.orthanc.ab.ca [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5JHDkJZ050976; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:13:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Message-Id: <200206191713.g5JHDkJZ050976@orthanc.ab.ca> From: Lyndon Nerenberg Organization: The Frobozz Magic Homing Pigeon Company To: Gregory Neil Shapiro Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail problem in 4.6-RELEASE In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:02:10 PDT." <15632.11378.417976.535212@horsey.gshapiro.net> X-Mailer: mh-e 5.0.92; MH 6.8.4; Emacs 21.2 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:13:46 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mario.pranjic> Now, I cannot send any mail. Pine reports: mario.pranjic> Sending error: 421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfg5J6 This is such a common problem that rc.sendmail should be modified to test for these configuration errors. If any are found, an _understandable_ error message should be printed and logged, and the startup aborted. The "multiple smmsp accounts" problem is particularly non-obvious, yet can easily be detected by a simple bit of C code during the system boot. --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message