Sendmail Config Issues

Schiz0 schiz0phrenic21 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 12:36:50 UTC 2007


On 4/24/07, Dan Busarow <dan at dpcsys.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Apr 24, 2007, at 6:09 PM, Schiz0 wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm running 6.2-RELEASE-p3. I'm having some issues configuring
> > sendmail. I'm
> > new to sendmail, so please bear with me. I've read
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html
> > along
> > with some docs on sendmail.org. I'm guessing I'm overlooking
> > something, or
> > missing something completely.
> >
> > I'm trying to sent up a sendmail config to send/receive mail
> > locally, and
> > run smtp. My asdf.mc file is located at: http://pastebin.ca/456745
> > and my
> > asdf.submit.mc file is at: http://pastebin.ca/456757
> > SENDMAIL_MC and SENDMAIL_SUBMIT_MC are set in make.conf to the full
> > path to
> > those .mc files.
> >
> > I also made changes to aliases, access, local-host-names, and
> > virtusertable
> > in the /etc/mail dir.
>
> As a first step change
>
> DOMAIN(schiz0.securityexploits.com)
>
> to
>
> DOMAIN(schiz0.securityexploits.com)
>
> unless you happen to have created an M4 domain file named
> schiz0.securityexploits.com.m4.  It is *not* a place you define your
> domain name.
>
> Dan
>
>
> >
> > When I run make in the /etc/mail dir, I get the following error:
> > ---------------
> > # make
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail -bi -OAliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases
> > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 279: Unknown address family inet6 in
> > Family=option
> > *** Error code 70
> >
> > Stop in /etc/mail.
> > ---------------
> >
> > I disabled IPv6 in my kernel config, and I commented out in both
> > the normal
> > mc file, and the submit file the information for ipv6, so I'm not sure
> > what's doing this.
> >
> > Thanks in advance! If it wasn't for these mailing lists, I'd be
> > back on
> > windows :-D
> >
> > ~Steve
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>

Thanks! I looked at /usr/share/sendmail/domains and that got it for me. I
misunderstood the DOMAIN() option. Sendmail is now up and running.

Much appreciated!
~Steve


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