shi@po.CWRU.Edu (Steven H. Izen) (04/23/91)
I'm still haveing trouble getting sendmail to deliver mail. Here's the setup: I'm uisng ISC 3.2.2, (* WITHOUT *) tcp/ip. I have only UUCP mail configured. Local mail on mys system works fine, as does any outgoing mail. Remote incoming mail gets queued, but not delivered. If I run /usr/lib/sendmail -q -v, the mail will then get delivered o.k. Everything was working fine until I upgraded to 3.2.2 from release 2.0.2. I have played with the sendmail.cf for hours on end. I have tried almost everything I could find. It was interesting learning about all the sendmail options. I have tried running /usr/lib/sendmail with a time specified in the q switch. The problem with that is that sendmail immediately exits becasue (I think) that there is nothing for it to listen to. -remember I don't have tcp/ip on this system- One workaround, which is not appealing, is to set up cron to run sendmail every so often, but Ishouldn't ahve to do that. Can anyone think of anything? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please reply by e-mail since I don't often have the time to read this group Thanks. -- Steven H. Izen, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Reply to izen@cwru.cwru.edu or steve@izen386.math.cwru.edu or steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu Entropy - It's not what it used to be.
lh@aega84.UUCP (L. Hirschbiegel) (04/24/91)
In article <1991Apr23.145953.5712@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> shi@po.CWRU.Edu (Steven H. Izen) writes: > >I'm still haveing trouble getting sendmail to deliver mail. > >Here's the setup: I'm uisng ISC 3.2.2, (* WITHOUT *) tcp/ip. I have only >UUCP mail configured. Local mail on mys system works fine, as does any >outgoing mail. Remote incoming mail gets queued, but not delivered. >If I run /usr/lib/sendmail -q -v, the mail will then get delivered o.k. >Everything was working fine until I upgraded to 3.2.2 from release 2.0.2. > > [stuff deleted] >-- > Steven H. Izen, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. >Reply to izen@cwru.cwru.edu or steve@izen386.math.cwru.edu or > steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu >Entropy - It's not what it used to be. Since my email bounced I'm trying it this way. 1. get some kind of debugger (fm will do this job). 2. find "sendmail" in /bin/rmail. As you can see sendmail is called with options "-oee" and "-odq" from within rmail. 3. Change "-odq" (this is responsible for the queuing of your incoming mail) to "-odb". 4. Write back rmail. That's all! I dunno why ISC hardcoded queue'd mailing, but its really annoying... (no flames, please, I'm also not one of the patient guys :-). L. Hirschbiegel ==================================================================== L. Hirschbiegel, AEG Produktionsautomatisierung, Frankfurt (Germany) unido!aega84!lh -49-69-66414316 ====================================================================
shi@po.CWRU.Edu (Steven H. Izen) (04/27/91)
In a previous article, lh@aega84.UUCP (L. Hirschbiegel) says: >In article <1991Apr23.145953.5712@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> shi@po.CWRU.Edu (Steven H. Izen) writes: >>I'm still haveing trouble getting sendmail to deliver mail. ... >2. find "sendmail" in /bin/rmail. As you can see sendmail is called with > options "-oee" and "-odq" from within rmail. >3. Change "-odq" (this is responsible for the queuing of your incoming > mail) to "-odb". >4. Write back rmail. >L. Hirschbiegel This worked wonderfully. Thanks to all who responded, I really appreciate the help. The above fix was the easiest and simplest. -- Steven H. Izen, Associate Professor, (as of 7/1/91) Dept. of Math. and Stat. Reply to shi@po.cwru.edu or steve@izen386.math.cwru.edu or steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu or uunet!cwjcc!skybridge!{pitacat,izen386}!steve Entropy - It's not what it used to be.
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (04/27/91)
shi@po.CWRU.Edu (Steven H. Izen) writes: > someone else wrote: >>2. find "sendmail" in /bin/rmail. As you can see sendmail is called with >> options "-oee" and "-odq" from within rmail. >>3. Change "-odq" (this is responsible for the queuing of your incoming >> mail) to "-odb". >This worked wonderfully. Thanks to all who responded, I really appreciate >the help. The above fix was the easiest and simplest. The easiest fix is to do the following: mv /bin/rmail /bin/rmail.orig cp /usr/lib/sendmail /bin/rmail We have been running that way for about 2 years with no problems. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc. uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170