Did you run Linuxconf or any other auto-configuration program by any
chance?
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> I seem to be having a peculiar problem with sendmail. I have stock RHL 6.1
> (PCQ).
>
> I had set up my email according to the write up in PCQ and B. Prasad's
> HOWTO.
> I had made the following changes to sendmail.cf :
> DM bom3.vsnl.net.in
> DS bom3.vsnl.net.in
> o HoldEpensive = True
> added e to the MSMTP, MESMTP, MSMTP8, MRELAY lines.
>
> sendmail.cw does not have dnl before Allow_unresolvable_domain
>
> Things were working fine.
> I then upgrded Mutt to 1.1.11i. Things were still working fine after adding
> set_envelope_from=yes in muttrc.
>
> All of a sudden, from a few days back, I was unable to send mails. The mail
> goes upto the sent-mail folder but no further. It does not return with any
> error message nor is it found in mqueue.
>
> Yesterday Suresh asked me to make holdexpensive=true but I knew I already
> had it =true. Later when I checked, the holdexpensive flag is showing False
> and there is no e in the MSMTP, MESMTP etc flags.
>
> I am positive I did not revert these changes. No one else has access to my
> computer (I actually lock up the cpu in a special cabinet --- lots of
> confidential patient files in there), there are no logins shown in
> /var/log/messages when I have not been in the clinic.
>
> There are the following three files in /etc
> sendmail.cf April 19
> sendmail.cf.old Jan 16
> sendmail.cf~ Sep 1
>
> I have made changes to sendmail.cf. These changes are also present in
> sendmail.cf.old but sendmail.cf~ is the original unmodified file.
>
> How could sendmail.cf have reverted to it's old unmodified state all by
> itself ?????
>
> I am thoroughly in the dark,
>
> sharukh.
>
>
>
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