rpm -e sendmail
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, R. 'Trebor' Groves wrote:
> I switched from RH 5.1 to Mandrake 6, then 6.1, each a clean install.
>
> under RH, sendmail seemed ok, but there were numerous hacks and bugs
> reported for RH5.1 so I decided to upgrade.
>
> The first time I used mandrake 6, with Postfix, it seemed like all was well
> and running fine however, I started getting messages from friends that they
> were not getting mail to me or responses from me.
>
> I went through and manually configured all the options in postfix (the ones
> it supposedly figures out) and the problem got worse, then worse still so
> that I could not mail from one user to another ON the machine, and relays
> from one user to another didn't work either, along with sometimes getting
> mail, sometimes not.
>
> I wiped reinstalled, and the problem wasn't much different. I can relay
> through my box, the intent I wanted, but I can not receive mail on the
> machine.
>
> I finally received a little help from weise (maker of postfix) that at least
> showed me there were mail errors...
>
> postfix/local[3606]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/aliases.db: No such
> file or directory
>
> of course the message is kindof false. the aliases are there...
>
> however I found that when I added new aliases, the "Newaliases" command
> would not operate on /etc/postfix/aliases, but instead operated on
> /etc/aliases.
>
> No problem I thought... Change Main.cf (postfix config file) and tell it the
> file is actually in /etc right??
>
> wrong...
>
> different error (don't have it at this time)
> but it said it was an incompatible format or something similar to it, with a
> .dbm extension mentioned.
>
> Anyway..
>
> I'm trying to install RH6.1 now to see if there is any difference.
>
> Has anyone had this kind of problem?
>
> Local Mail fails to deliver.
>
> NO Error messages returned for unknown users at my computer's domain name
>
> Oh... but after I had reloaded (when I gave up on my first attempt to
> manually fix) I could send locally, but not from OUTSIDE into users. So if
> I logged into my box, opened PINE and sent a message to someone else on the
> system, they WOULD get the message.
>
> so delivery out bound (either from a user directly logged onto the machine,
> or via relays) no problem.. In bound, no delivery all the emails just stack
> up in the deferred folder.
>
> help...
>
>
>
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