Fetchmail problem

Annelise Anderson impala87 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Apr 20 20:37:57 UTC 2009


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"
Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 6: fileclass: cannot open 'ATURE(
access_db,': No such file or directory
Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 7: fileclass: cannot open 'ATURE(
blacklist_recipients)': No such file or directory
Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 8: fileclass: cannot open 'ATURE(
local_lmtp)': No such file or directory
Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 9: fileclass: cannot open 'ATURE(
mailertable,': No such file or directory
Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 10: fileclass: cannot open 'ATURE
(virtusertable,': No such file or directory
Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 17: unknown configuration line "/
etc/mail/local-host-names and comment out the second line."
Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 24: MAILER(local): A= argument re
quired
Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 25: MAILER(smtp): A= argument req
uired
Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): No local 
mailer defined
Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set


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