Could it perhaps be the /etc/mail/submit.cf file that was the problem?
I'm not sure how nmh submits the mail (via local sendmail invocation,
or via port 25, or via port 587, etc. Each could have its own problems
(missing symlink, bad .cf files, etc).
If sendmail.mc is compiled will the proble
Quoting Parker Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Problem: Sending mail failed after the update. I send locally using
nmh. Restarting sendmail didn't help. Receiving appeared to be
unaffected.
Quick fix: After waiting several days hoping the problem would just go
away, I had to do something about it.
?
thanks!
From: Eric Rostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Discussion of the Fedora Legacy Project
To: fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: sendmail update left me in a fix
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:28:03 -0500
Just to point out some potential issues (depending on upgrade
Just to point out some potential issues (depending on upgrade paths, etc).
Some old sendmail configurations kept files in /etc/ while newer
configurations
keep these files in /etc/mail/ instead. A similar problem might exist for
some files moved from /etc/ or /etc/mail/ to /var/run et al. T
On 2006-04-10 15:00:23 +0200, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote:
> Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>
> >BTW, is there somewhere a complete up-to-date description of the spec
> >file? The file above is just a "what's new since some unspecified
> >release" file, and RPM to the max is now over 5 years o
Peter J. Holzer wrote:
BTW, is there somewhere a complete up-to-date description of the spec
file? The file above is just a "what's new since some unspecified
release" file, and RPM to the max is now over 5 years old.
See the documentation section on the frontpage of http://www.rpm.org/
Nils.
On 2006-04-10 11:53:04 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
> On 10/04/2006 Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> > > That's when the config file has essential changes for the updated
> > > package to work at all, and hence must be installed. The rpmsave
> > > file is there as a hint that you need to merge your previo
On 10/04/2006 Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> > That's when the config file has essential changes for the updated
> > package to work at all, and hence must be installed. The rpmsave
> > file is there as a hint that you need to merge your previous changes with
> > the new format.
>
> How does RPM decid
Parker Jones wrote:
>>> The 5th April sendmail update screwed up mail on my RH-7.3 box.
>
> Problem: Sending mail failed after the update. I send locally using
> nmh. Restarting sendmail didn't help. Receiving appeared to be unaffected.
>
> Quick fix: After waiting several days hoping the proble
On 2006-04-10 09:38:18 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
> Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> > [0] Or sometimes, they are replaced and your file is renamed to
> > .rpmsave. I still haven't figured out when that happens.
>
> That's when the config file has essential changes for the updated
> package to work at a
Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>
> [0] Or sometimes, they are replaced and your file is renamed to
> .rpmsave. I still haven't figured out when that happens.
That's when the config file has essential changes for the updated
package to work at all, and hence must be installed. The rpmsave file is
there a
On 2006-04-10 13:45:01 +1200, Parker Jones wrote:
> Is the sendmail.mc replaced during the update? Should there be a backup of
> the
> old version e.g as sendmail.mc.rpmnew? I didn't find one. Why is there a
> sendmail.cf.rpmnew and not a sendmail.mc.rpmnew?
Configuration files are silently
The 5th April sendmail update screwed up mail on my RH-7.3 box.
How so?
Problem: Sending mail failed after the update. I send locally using nmh.
Restarting sendmail didn't help. Receiving appeared to be unaffected.
Quick fix: After waiting several days hoping the problem would just go away
Quoting Parker Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The 5th April sendmail update screwed up mail on my RH-7.3 box.
How so?
It is probably due to your having installed the earlier update actually,
and not due to the current update. But in any case, if something is
broken it is broken. But you never d
The 5th April sendmail update screwed up mail on my RH-7.3 box.
In /var/log/maillog I'm getting lots of these:
Apr 7 01:28:17 stancomb sendmail[6702]: k36NSHhs006702: localhost
[127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Not knowing anything about sendmail configura
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