Fetchmail problem

[Annelise Anderson]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:11:13 -0700, Annelise Anderson <impala87 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>>Mel Flynn wrote:
>>
>>>On Monday 20 April 2009 09:12:32 Annelise Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Fbsd1 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Annelise Anderson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I am trying to use fetchmail on FreeBSD but get the message:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>fetchmail: SMTP< 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address
>>>>>>owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org does not resolve
>>>
>>>
>>>The question isn't whether you can resolve it, but whether your
>>>mailserver can. Check your mail log for the smtp server. If the
>>>mailserver is chrooted, check for $chrootdir/etc/resolv.conf.
>>
>>I don't know how to read sendmail.st, but the mailserver (sendmail) is
>>not chrooted.
>>
>>In /var/log/messages I get this, but it doesn't seem to relate to
>>anything in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:
>>
>>Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1: unknown configuration line "7A
>>"
>>Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 2: invalid argument to V line: "E
>>RSIONID(\001FreeBSD: s"
> 
> 
> Hmmm, it looks like your `sendmail.cf' has been overwritten by an
> unexpanded copy of `sendmail.mc'.  What do you see with:
> 
>     % diff -u /etc/mail/freebsd.mc /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> 
> If this shows only a few lines of local changes, then you should keep a
> backup copy of the current `/etc/mail/sendmail.cf' file and then try to
> macro-expand it with the `/etc/mail/Makefile' machinery to generate a
> real `sendmail.cf' file...

Thanks--to all who helped--I think I've got it working now.

	Annelise