At 01:58 PM 8/5/00 -0700, davidturetsky wrote:
>I too have been trying to grope my way through sendmail. Yes it was
>installed with my system at /usr/sbin, but there is no file .fetchmailrc or
>sendmail.cf
>
>I wonder if I shouldn't download a fresh copy and (re)install it
Bet you're wrong. You run Debian, yes? The default mailer for Debian is
exim, not sendmail. It sets up a symlink "sendmail" that points to exim (any
MTA does that, because way too many applications assume that name for the
system's MTA to let them do anything else).
Since fetchmail is a separate application, neither exim nor genuine sendmail
would create any .fetchmailrc files. Try installing fetchmail.*.deb and
fetchmailconf.*.deb for this. (I assume you know how to use apt-get by now.)
Instead of sendmail.cf, you want to look for /etc/exim.conf (or, easier, run
/usr/sbin/eximconfig).
>David
>
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