sendmail woes

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2003-04-04 14:32, bastill at adam.com.au wrote:
>Quoting Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr>:
>> but you should really read the README file for hints and pointers
>> to more detailed documentation.
>
> I think the README to which you refer is elsewhere?  /etc/mail/README is quite
> brief and refers to people who have sendmail_enable=NO and
> sendmail_submit_enable=NO in their configs (doesn't apply on my system, which
> says YES to both) and a paragraph on dealing with spam.
>
>> 	# cd /etc/mail
>> 	# test -f `hostname`.mc && cp `hostname`.mc `hostname`.mc.BAK
>> 	# cp freebsd.mc `hostname`.mc
>
> OK to this point
>
>> 	# make && make install
>
> Then
>
> root at BAPhD /etc/mail #make && make install
> /usr/bin/m4 -
> D_CF_DIR_=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/   /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4
> BAPhD.gihon.org.au.mc > BAPhD.gihon.org.au.cf
> *** WARNING: missing -T<TMPF> in argument of FEATURE(`access_db', hash -
> o /etc/mail/access)
>
> make: don't know how to make freebsd.submit.cf. Stop

Hmmm, it looks like you have an old copy of freebsd.mc around.  What is
the output of this command?

	# ident /etc/mail/freebsd.mc /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc

> Does that help clarify the issue?

Yep, at least it's a clue in the right direction ;-)