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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.
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?
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.
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)
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