sendmail update left me in a fix

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Parker Jones <zoubidoo at hotmail.com>:

> 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.  I appear to have made the
> problem go away by replacing sendmail.cf with its old version (prior to
> the sendmail update) and restarting sendmail.
>
> Looking for an explanation:  I tried to reproduce the problem by
> restoring the sendmail.cf supplied with the update and restarting
> sendmail.  Surprisingly I could still send - I expected it to break.
> This would suggest that there is something else going on that I'm not
> taking into consideration (rebuilding of sendmail.mc perhaps?)
>
> So I still have no satisfactory explanation of the cause of the problem.

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 problem reappear?

Try it and find out (but I doubt it).

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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