Sendmail not working at all.
 

I can't figure out how to do this, I have no experience with sendmail, it's configured from guides, etc.

Basically, sendmail doesnt work, I can start it as a daemon, but I can send mail to local users or external addresses..

The os is RH 7.3, sendmail version... umm not sure how to get that, i've tried sendmail -v, -V, --Version and --version. I know it's a recent version because I updated it to fix the security vunerability.. im sorry im just useless at this, and it's pissing me off.

Help would be GREATLY appreciated.

How have you tried to call it? What happens when you using the mail command? e.g. cat /etc/lilo.conf | mail root

cheers

Jamie...

use the command

sendmail -d0.1 -bt < /dev/null

to get the v ersion :)

-d sets debug level

-bt puts in address test mode

and te redirect from /dev/null gives it no address to test

Ok, the version is 8.12.8

The way I tried to send mail was using Webmin, an online admin thingy, im not exatly sure of the command to send mail from the command line.

When I type mail, it tells me there is no mail for root, and when i type cat /etc/lilo.conf | mail root it says:

[root@you root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf | mail root
No message, no subject; hope that's ok
[root@you root]# collect: Cannot write ./dfh3OHgUd2005933 (bfcommit, uid=520, gid=508): Permission denied
queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfh3OHgUd2005933, uid=520: Permission denied

Anyone have any ideaS?

What user were you running sendmail as? It sounds to me like sendmail it trying to write temporary files to a location that the user it's running as isn't able to write to. Can you see what user sendmail is running as?

cheers

Jamie...

Thanks for replying, the user was uid 520, 'smmsp'.

dump it, use qmail!

Eehehehe right, i'm actually dumping QMail and using sendmail :P

I can't say I blame you, all my boxes are qmail'd up now.

cheers

Jamie...

*bump*

So, should I set certain permissions on the user sendmail runs as? If so, what permissions?

Sorry, I didn't reply sooner as I'm not that upto speed on how qmail uses its smmsp user to deliver mail, and I don't have any boxes runnig sendmail to have a look on either.

cheers

Jamie...

Thanks for trying anyway, just one more question..

I've got sendmail working, but now when I try to run it as a daemon, with the command: /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q10m it runs for about 30s to 1m then just stops... is there a log or something that sendmail writes to, that I could look at to see whats up? I've tried appending >/root/mailerror (A file I created) to the command, but the file just stays blank.

Typically sendmail logs through syslogd so you'll probably find something in /var/log/mail or /var/log/maillog or /var/log/message depending how syslogd is configures (/etc/syslogd.conf)

cheers

Jamie...