Fixed.
I added the line:
'Kjunk hash -a@JUNK /etc/mail/deny' to the config file
and created an empty /etc/mail/deny file, rebuilt an empty deny.db file
then restarted.
The bat-book stikes again !
Thx for all who replied.
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Ward [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 8:17 AM
> To: Peter Worboys; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Sendmail 8.9.3 Query
>
> It is a problem with the RedHat "linuxconf" package. Don't worry, your mail
> got through.
>
> If you use linuxconf to configure sendmail I have noticed a few problems,
> (one of them since 6.0)
> 1. If you enable a feature, until you add entries, the coresponding database
> will not be created.
> I think the one for this message is officially /etc/mail/deny
> You could fix it be stepping through all the spam filtering making sure
> you create a bogus rule, then retunring and deleting it.
> The other way is to just do a "touch /etc/mail/deny" and then a
> "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart"
> 2. Someone has hardcoded the location of the mailertable to be
> /var/lib/mailertable. If you edit the rules for mailertable you end up
> editing /var/lib/mailertable. Problem is the one sendmail uses is
> /etc/mailertable.
> 3. Some of the help messages are misleading with respect to relaying.
>
> I quite like the concept of "linuxconf" it can speed up an initial install
> (before customising), but the sendmail config is pretty bad. I don't know
> that is uses m4, I suspect it just glues together some pre-m4'ed rules.
>
>
> Regards, Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Worboys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 December 1999 10:57 AM
> Subject: [SLUG] Sendmail 8.9.3 Query
>
>
> > G'day
> >
> > I have been just looking over a Sendmail 8.9.3 installation and have found
> > the following log messages i.e.:
> >
> > Dec 28 10:45:56 gatekeeper sendmail[26932]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> rewrite:
> > map junk not found
> >
> > A empty 'junk' rule exists in 'sendmail.cf' i.e.:
> >
> > #Empty junk rule
> > Sjunk
> >
> > I am not sure if the mail if actually being delivered or not as this is
> the
> > only occurrence of the PID (in this case 26932) in the log file.
>
>
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