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Subject: bin/2184: sendmail has lots of trouble with local delivery - FDIV047
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>Number:         2184
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sendmail has lots of trouble with local delivery - FDIV047
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec  8 22:30:01 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Frank Durda IV (uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org)
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA i386
>Environment:

[FDIV047]

Freshly installed FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA, logged-in as root, no other
accounts or other configuration done, apart from establishing
network and named settings.  Stock file permissions.  Default
alias file.

>Description:

# mail non-existant-local-user  (I used "bon")
Subject: test
test

^D
# sendmail -q -v &
LONG DELAY (some minutes)					Why?
bon...User unknown						Correct.
/root/dead.letter...  cannot open: Permission denied.		Why?
Warning: alias database /etc/aliases db out of date		Why?
WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases	Which message is right?
/etc/aliases: 10 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 109 bytes total	Uh huh.
Warning: alias database /etc/aliases db out of date		Why?
WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases	Which message is right?
/etc/aliases: 10 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 109 bytes total	Uh huh.

Issues:

1.	Why the long delay for a local delivery?  No network contact
	should be needed at all.  

2.	/root/dead.letter doesn't exist.  Is sendmail supposed
	to complain like this and not just create the dead.letter file?
	(I use smail normally so sendmail actions in this case are not
	 known to me)

3.	Why does it consider /etc/aliases out of date?
	File has 13-Nov date as in 2.2-ALPHA distribution.

4.	Why does it say it cannot open /etc/aliases (permissions 644)?
	This message also contradicts the "out of date" message noted
	in #3.

5.	Why does it then repeat these complaints a second time after
	apparently processing the /etc/aliases file?

>How-To-Repeat:

See above.


>Fix:
	
Workaround is to install smail.  :-)


>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: