murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy) (03/23/91)
I'm working on configuring a sendmail daemon, and I have it completely functional, except when receiving mail for local users, I get this: ---------- From MAILER-DAEMON@server1 Fri Mar 22 16:01:23 1991 Received: by server1.datanet.me ( 5.52 (84)/5.17) id AA19083; Fri, 22 Mar 91 15:58:46 EST Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 15:58:46 EST From: MAILER-DAEMON@server1 (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 5 Message-Id: <9103222058.AA19083@server1.datanet.me> To: <murray@motto> Status: O ----- Transcript of session follows ----- mail: Options MUST PRECEDE persons 554 <murrayk@server1>... unknown mailer error 5 ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by server1.datanet.me ( 5.52 (84)/5.17) id AA19081; Fri, 22 Mar 91 15:58:46 EST Received: by motto.datanet.me (1.2/Ultrix2.0-B) id AA10853; Fri, 22 Mar 91 16:01:09 est Message-Id: <9103222101.AA10853@motto.datanet.me> From: murray@motto (Murray S. Kucherawy) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 16:01:07 EST Organization: Communications Division, Motorola Canada Ltd., Toronto X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.1.1 5/02/90) To: murrayk@server1 Subject: Sample Sample message ---------- Answer by either posting or e-mail. adv-THANKS-ance... =============================== Murray S. Kucherawy ========================== Motorola Canada, Ltd. Communications Division, Toronto [on work term] University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 2B Math/Computer Science Internet: murray@motto.UUCP (work) mskucherawy@watmath.UWaterloo.ca (UW) UUCP: uunet!utai!lsuc!motto!murray uunet!watmath!mskucherawy
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (03/25/91)
In article <542@motto.UUCP>, murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy) writes: |> I'm working on configuring a sendmail daemon, and I have it completely |> functional, except when receiving mail for local users, I get this: |> |> ... |> |> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- |> mail: Options MUST PRECEDE persons |> 554 <murrayk@server1>... unknown mailer error 5 |> |> ... Well, since you did not provide your sendmail.cf file, I can only guess at what the problem is, but a pretty good guess is that the command line specification for the local mailer specification is screwed up. For example, my local mailer specification looks like this: Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail -d $u I suspect you've got the "$u" and the "-d" switched, like this: Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail $u -d At least, that's what the error message you're getting seems to imply. -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710
paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) (03/26/91)
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: >In article <542@motto.UUCP>, murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy) writes: >|> I'm working on configuring a sendmail daemon, and I have it completely >|> functional, except when receiving mail for local users, I get this: >|> >|> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >|> mail: Options MUST PRECEDE persons >|> 554 <murrayk@server1>... unknown mailer error 5 >|> > > Well, since you did not provide your sendmail.cf file, I can only guess at >what the problem is, but a pretty good guess is that the command line >specification for the local mailer specification is screwed up. > > For example, my local mailer specification looks like this: > > Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail -d $u > >I suspect you've got the "$u" and the "-d" switched, like this: > > Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail $u -d > >At least, that's what the error message you're getting seems to imply. Another cause I've seen is that some /bin/mail programs don't like 'r' in the Flags section. Try it as Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=lsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail -d $u The best thing to do is to compare entries for the local mailer against a sendmail.cf file that's known to work on your system. -- Paul Pomes UUCP: {att,iuvax,uunet}!uiucuxc!paul Internet, BITNET: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu US Mail: UofIllinois, CSO, 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801-2910