sendmail not working?

[Derek Ragona]

Postfix is the mail transfer agent, or MTA.  That means it does the local 
delivery.  In a sendmail only server you have two instances of sendmail 
running one to send the mail, one as the MTA.  You need at least one running.

         -Derek


At 04:23 PM 3/14/2007, Nagy László Zsolt wrote:
>Derek Ragona wrote
>>You need to make sure sendmail is starting and running.  Check your 
>>rc.conf and any variables that might need to be set.
>Thanks!
>
>In my rc.conf:
>
>sendmail_enable="NO"
>
>However, as I wrote, I was using postfix. I'm not a big guru but I believe 
>that postfix has its own daemon and it has a sendmail binary that is 
>compatible with the system default sendmail.
>
>Anyway, your comment helped me a lot! I upgraded to 6.2 some weeks ago and 
>probably I did not reactivate postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. 
>Additionally, probably I forgot to merge the old mailer.conf with the new 
>one. I changed my rc.conf to this:
>
>sendmail_enable="NO"
>postfix_enable="YES"
>
>Then I started postfix:
>
>messias# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix start
>postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
>messias# ps ax | grep postf
>68249  ??  Ss     0:00.01 /usr/local/libexec/postfix/master
>
>Yet I still do not get my emails:
>
>messias# mail gandalf
>Subject: Test3
>.
>EOT
>Null message body; hope that's ok
>messias# mail
>Mail version 8.1 6/6/93.  Type ? for help.
>"/var/mail/gandalf": 1 message
> >   1 MAILER-DAEMON at messia  Fri Nov 10 12:27  13/664   "DON'T DELETE THIS 
> MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA"
>& q
>messias# sendmail gandalf
>Test4.
>.
>messias# mail
>Mail version 8.1 6/6/93.  Type ? for help.
>"/var/mail/gandalf": 1 message
> >   1 MAILER-DAEMON at messia  Fri Nov 10 12:27  13/664   "DON'T DELETE THIS 
> MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA"
>& q
>
>Pawing in the dark...
>
>   Laszlo
>
>
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