Re: new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems

["John Boggon" <John.B@uq.net.au>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Damir J. Naden <dnaden@inforamp.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Friday, 9 January 1998 2:37 pm
Subject: new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems


>When installing smail package, the only remaining package in hamm dist
>was 3.2.0.100-1, so I installed thinking it had solved previous problems
>with /etc/inetd.conf file. Well, the smtp line in /etc/inetd.conf is
>*not* commented out, and I still get the same (?) message that fetchmail
>sees the mail in my ISP mailbox, tries to retrieve it and smtp
>connection is refused. I don't have any network cards and no local
>networks (single PC box), only connected to the ISP. I can telnet from
>VC to localhost.
>The second problem is that the mail from root(while installing the
>package - the test message) to localhost (my regular username is where
>all the postmaster mail should go) is not delivered with the message:
>#runq: /etc/smail/config: parse error: unexpected end of attribute
>This message pops up on my VC where I'm logged as a root every time runq
>attempts to send it...
>Is this my fault or has somebody else encountered a similar problem(s)?
>BTW, my answers to smailconfig when first installing:
>1-internet site (SMTP via TCP/IP)
>2-visible name: inforamp.net
>3-other visible names: none
>4-smarthost: inforamp.net
>5-use inforamp.net for all mail that doesn't have to be delivered
>locally
>6-postmaster mail to dnaden
>7-send a message to local address: yes
>8-use inetd instead of the smtp daemon
>
>Note that I can ftp to the Net thru the PPP connection without a
>problem.
>
>Can i fix this somehow?
>


I had the same problem as this today after upgrading last night....

Check the last line in your /etc/smail/config file. Mine had the last " in
the wrong place. Move it back one space and all should be ok.

John


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