sendmail won't start

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Andy Greenwood wrote:
> I compilied the sendmail.cf file, sendmail won't start. What am I
> doing wrong here?
> 554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 2: invalid argument to V line:
> "ERSIONID(FreeBSD: s"
> 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 6: fileclass: cannot open
> 'ATURE(access_db,': No such file or directory

What happened to the first character on each line?  Those should read 
"VERSIONID" and "FEATURE".  Perhaps you got some kind of junk or control 
characters in there?  Or saved it with dos-style cr-lf line delimiters?

   -wayne