Re: Setting up Sendmail
Try exim. It's easier to set up.
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:02:54PM -0700, Michael Olds scribbled...
> Hello,
>
> Woody.
>
> I am having some difficulty getting Sendmail up and running.
> I installed the program apparently with no problems. I ran: sendmailconfig
> after the install, also apparently no problems, no errors reported. But
> nothing works either. So I looked in /etc/mail/ and there is no sendmail.cf
> so I tried running sendmailconfig again and it asked if it should configure
> using the existing sendmail .conf and I said yes. And it reported there was
> no /usr/sbin/update_conf which there isn't as it's in /usr/share/sendmail/
>
> (Question one: could I just move it to where it wants?)
>
> There is no existing sendmail.conf in /etc/mail/ either.
>
> When I tried to create a sendmail.cf using:
>
> cd /etc/mail
> m4 /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 I first got a permission denied and saw
> that the files in /m4/ were all marked non executable. I marked them
> executable but I am not sure if that was the right thing to do.
>
> I re-ran m4 etc and got this error message:
> NONE:0:m4: ERROR: EOF in string
>
> I tried looking up EOF (?end of file?) on Google where there are many
> references and no explanations.
>
> I have uninstalled and reinstalled the program several times and I always
> end up at this spot. Does anyone know how I get out of this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
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