sendmail: "No local mailer defined" ?

michaelsanford · 02-12-2006, 08:00 PM

I've followed the first half of the second half of SeigX's instructions ( http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...+10.2+sendmail ).

I did not follow the Server-side AUTH because I only need to send mail from PHP directly to my ISP's SMTP server, which does not require authentication. I removed the "FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash -o /etc/mail/authinfo.db')dnl" line (or, rather, didn't add it). Everything recompiled OK, it seems.

Code:

dnl# Uncomment the line below to send outgoing mail through an external server:
define(`SMART_HOST',`[smtp8.sympatico.ca]')dnl
...
dnl# Also accept mail for localhost.localdomain:
LOCAL_DOMAIN(`localhost.localdomain')dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl

Code:

root@arjuna:/usr/share/sendmail/cf# /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail restart
Starting sendmail MTA daemon:  /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q25m -X /tmp/sendtmp
Starting sendmail MSP queue runner:  /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q25m
No local mailer defined
QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set

Code:

Feb 12 20:50:27 arjuna sm-mta[21476]: gethostbyaddr(10.0.0.1) failed: 1
Feb 12 20:50:27 arjuna sm-mta[21476]: gethostbyaddr(64.231.0.45) failed: 1
Feb 12 20:50:27 arjuna sm-mta[21477]: starting daemon (8.13.4): SMTP+queueing@00:25:00
Feb 12 20:50:27 arjuna sm-msp-queue[21478]: gethostbyaddr(10.0.0.1) failed: 1
Feb 12 20:50:27 arjuna sm-msp-queue[21478]: gethostbyaddr(64.231.0.45) failed: 1
Feb 12 20:50:27 arjuna sm-msp-queue[21478]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): No local mailer defined
Feb 12 20:50:27 arjuna sm-msp-queue[21478]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set

I've looked for answers all over the place, but given the wonderful simplicity of sendmail, nothing I've found has answered my problem.

Do I need to set my hostname somewhere ? Do I need to set a from user other than nobody@arjuna ? Any thoughts ?

gilead · 02-12-2006, 08:27 PM

Do you also have in your sendmail.mc file something like the following?

Code:

FEATURE(`local_procmail',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl

This will use procmail to process your local mail. There's some more info at http://www.sendmail.org/m4/features.html#local_procmail
I've also used the following on one of my boxes:

Code:

FEATURE(local_procmail,`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl

michaelsanford · 02-12-2006, 08:54 PM

Thanks for the quick reply ! This has really gotten me down...it's the last major hurdle on my new server upgrade.

In fact, I do:

Code:

FEATURE(`local_procmail',`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl

PS This is /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf/sendmail-slackware.mc not any of the other -sasld or -tls appended ones. Should I have used one of those instead ?

gilead · 02-12-2006, 10:09 PM

It sounds like you have the right setting in the right file. If you run the following does it produce output?

Code:

grep '^Mlocal' /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

I get the following back:

Code:

Mlocal,         P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,

If your output is similar, the problem may be related to the failed gethostbyaddr calls. I have nothing like those in my logs.

michaelsanford · 02-12-2006, 10:18 PM

Code:

root@arjuna:/usr/share/sendmail/cf# grep '^Mlocal' /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
Mlocal,         P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,

Yessir, identical.

I seem to remember having a problem on my last server related to the gethostbyaddress() but I can't for the life of me remember what. Do I need to specify my hostname somewhere (like that suspicious "localhost.localdomain" line)? I do have a FQDN top-level .com, this host is called arjuna, dynamic ip if that matters.

gilead · 02-12-2006, 10:28 PM

Do you have the domain info in /etc/hosts (or /etc/mail/local-host-names)? That should take care of being able to resolve the domain.

michaelsanford · 03-13-2006, 08:48 AM

I never noticed this reply! It's still not working, and any more help would be appreciated.

Yes, I have /etc/hosts configured to recognize my TLDs as 127.0.0.1. Maybe there's a problem because I have more than one ? Should I also put in my SMTP server (the one that's used as smart host, not mine)?

PS I still don't understand why "No local mailer defined" or why my queue directory isn't set when it is set to /tmp/sendtmp.

Code:

root@arjuna:/home/msanford# /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail start
Starting sendmail MTA daemon:  /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q25m -X /tmp/sendtmp
Starting sendmail MSP queue runner:  /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q25m
No local mailer defined
QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set

michaelsanford · 03-13-2006, 09:33 AM

Ok, I solved one of the problems:

Code:

root@arjuna:/var/spool/mqueue# /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail restart
Starting sendmail MTA daemon:  /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q25m -X /tmp/sendtmp
Starting sendmail MSP queue runner:  /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue -Ac -q25m
No local mailer defined

And yes, I actually have procmail installed (just thought of checking).

michaelsanford · 04-04-2006, 07:33 PM

Sorry to bump this, but I still haven't solved the issue of "No local mailer defined" so my sendmail remains impotent.

Any ideas?

PS I've discovered that there is another directive that's not mentioned in the tutorial cited above: define(LOCAL_MAILER_DEF, DELIVER)dnl. DELIVER seems to be what most people use, but I have no such binary installed (nor is it available on any of the slapt-get mirrors I use). After hours of Googling all I get is 5 year old articles saying "LOCAL_MAILER_DEF has to be defined, usually as linux.mailers that points to a file containing something like
Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/deliver, F=SlsmFDMP, S=10, R=25/10, A=deliver $u
Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMeuP, S=10, A=sh -c $u"

This is nonsensical to me. I'm obviously not editing something correctly, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is.

Alien_Hominid · 04-04-2006, 11:32 PM

Maybe this could help you. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=423897