SendMail config question for Mint 18.1 (Ubuntu 16.04)

risingfish · 04-27-2017, 12:02 PM

I'm getting an error in my send mail config and was curious if anyone knew knows what is happening.

First of all this is on Mint Linux 18.1 (Ubuntu 16.04 based). I've installed Sendmail and have setup the configuration to relay through gmail.

When I run sudo sendmailconfig everything starts of fine, but right before it asks if it should reload sendmail with the config I get this follwing errors:

Code:

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 7: invalid argument to V line: "ERSIONID(Id: sasl.m"
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 8: invalid argument to V line: "ERSIONID(Id: autoco"

The following lines in sendmail.cf look like

Code:

   4 #  This file is used to configure Sendmail for use with Debian systems.
   5 #
   6 # include(`/usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
   7 VERSIONID($Id: sasl.m4,v 8.15.2-3 2015-12-10 18:02:49 cowboy Exp $)
   8 VERSIONID($Id: autoconf.m4, v 8.15.2-3 2015-12-10 18:02:49 cowboy Exp $)
   9 TRUST_AUTH_MECH(EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN)TRUST_AUTH_MECH(EXTERNAL)
  10 #
  11 # Copyright (c) 1998-2004, 2009, 2010 Proofpoint, Inc. and its suppliers.

It seems odd that the bundled configbuilder would build an invalid config. I've been googling this for a day off and on but haven't found a solution yet. Anyone know what's going on?

af7567 · 04-27-2017, 05:25 PM

This looks like a sendmail .mc file not a .cf file. Try running it through the m4 command to create the cf file.

Code:

$ m4 sendmail.cf > /tmp/realsendmail.cf

bathory · 04-28-2017, 02:18 AM

Quote:

When I run sudo sendmailconfig everything starts of fine, but right before it asks if it should reload sendmail with the config I get this follwing errors:

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 7: invalid argument to V line: "ERSIONID(Id: sasl.m"
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 8: invalid argument to V line: "ERSIONID(Id: autoco"

The following lines in sendmail.cf look like
<snip>

You didn't say how you modified sendmail.cf, but you need to comment out lines 7 and 8:

Code:

   4 #  This file is used to configure Sendmail for use with Debian systems.
   5 #
   6 # include(`/usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
   7 # VERSIONID($Id: sasl.m4,v 8.15.2-3 2015-12-10 18:02:49 cowboy Exp $)
   8 # VERSIONID($Id: autoconf.m4, v 8.15.2-3 2015-12-10 18:02:49 cowboy Exp $)
   9 TRUST_AUTH_MECH(EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN)TRUST_AUTH_MECH(EXTERNAL)
  10 #
  11 # Copyright (c) 1998-2004, 2009, 2010 Proofpoint, Inc. and its suppliers.

Always make backups when you're editing config files

risingfish · 04-28-2017, 09:55 AM

I wasn't editing it, but maybe that was the problem I was only editing sendmail.mc. At any rate, I ended up talking to a few folks here are work and they convinced me to switch to Postfix. I was able to get Postfix up and running yesterday and it's relaying my emails now.

Thank you both for the replies however.