Re: sendmail: no local mailer

Hurray! With the addition of a make install, that worked wonderfully. I have 
no idea what was wrong with my sendmail.cf but at least now I can read the 
output from periodic.
Thanks a lot,
Evan Dower

>From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro_at_freebsd.org>
>To: "Evan Dower" <evantd_at_hotmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: sendmail: no local mailer
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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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