Plz, Help! /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:34:25PM +0200, VeeJay wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I have some weird problems in running Postfix. I have installed it on my
> FreeBSD 6.2 Box. Postfix starts normally as shown from maillog:
> 
> Sep 13 16:28:37 veejay postfix/postfix-script[18197]: starting the Postfix
> mail system
> 
> Sep 13 16:28:37 veejay postfix/master[18198]: daemon started -- version
> 2.4.0, configuration /usr/local/etc/postfix
> 
> But I am unable to send an email from the command prompt as shown here:
> 
> veejay# mail
> 
> Mail version 8.1 6/6/93.  Type ? for help.
> 
> "/var/mail/christensen": 0 messages
> 
> & m info at example.com
> 
> Subject: Test message
> 
> it is workinng
> 
> .
> 
> EOT
> 
> & mail: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
> 
> q
> 
> veejay#

/usr/sbin/sendmail should be a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper.

When you install Postfix, it asks if you want to activate postfix in
mailwrapper. You should say yes there.

Roland
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