Re: sendmail

["Paul J. Keenan" <paul.keenan@motorola.com>]

luis wrote:
> 
> hello
> 
> sorry, my problem with sendmail is that all the messages are deferred
> 
> how can i disable this behaviour ?
> 
> thanks a lot
> 
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deferred means that delivery has been put off until
later, when it will try again.  This happens when 
it was unable to deliver the mail successfully to
your mail service provider's machine.

Sendmail's log information is sent to

/var/log/mail.err
/var/log/mail.info
/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/mail.warn

The messages there should pinpoint the problem.
If they don't tell you the answer, you could
post them to the list, along with your config
file, and I'm sure there'll be an expert lurking
out there.

Have you correcly sprecified your upstream mail server
in your config file /etc/sendmail.mc.  You need to
specify it as follows

define(`SMART_HOST', smtp:post.demon.co.uk)dnl

(my upstream is post.demon.co.uk)

I think that this file is generated initially by
the debian configuration system.

Once you have edited this file, run sendmailconfig
as root, log on to the network and do

/etc/init.d/sendmail restart

HTH.

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Regards,
Paul