At 19:23 31/05/00 , you wrote:
>> While trying to send mail via Pine ( it's 4.10 ) , i noticed several errors
>> on my machine.
>Have you done what i told you to do in my last mail.???
Now, I just reinstalled my sendmail.cf as you told.
After reboot, now I can see message " sendmail is listening on port 25".
>This means you have NOT defined the place to "queue mail" its normally
>/var/spool/mail
>In a normal default sendmail.cf its on line 224 and should look like.
># queue directory
>O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue
Can i edit the line 224 of sendmail.cf directly ?
I'll try that.
>> 4. everytime i tried to open mail with pine, it says :
>> Connection failed to [127.0.0.1], 143, connection refused
>>
>> What's wrong ?
>
>Sendmail is not running because you dont have a MDA mail Delivery Agent
>defined in /etc/sendmail.cf or thats what it all looks like.
>
>In a "default" sendmail.cf you will find starting at line 897
>
>Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qShP, S=10/30, R=20/40,
> T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
> A=procmail -a $h -d $u
>Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=10/30, R=20/40, D=$z:/,
> T=X-Unix,
> A=sh -c $u
>
>I bet your sendmail.cf does not have it or its commented out.
>Also make sure you have /usr/bin/procmail installed as well.
Many thanks, I'll try that too right now.
frans t.
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