Re: sendmail

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Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 09:01:38 +0800
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@redhat.com>

Muhammad Rizwan Khan wrote:
> I wana to know somethings about sendmail, plz. tell me, if you know.
> first is,, how i can check the version of sendmail running on my system.
> Secondly,,, i got a sendmail.cf file, and pasted it on /etc/ directory. When
> i try to start sendmail it give me the following error, i guess its
> versioning problem. Can you plz. tell me what i need to change in
> sendmail.cf file (file is attached with the email) to make it functional on
> my system.
> [root@Rizwan etc]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
> Starting sendmail: 554 5.0.0 Warning: .cf version level (10) exceeds sendmail
> version 8.11.6 functionality (9)
> /etc/sendmail.cf: WARNING: dangerous write permissions
> [FAILED]
>
>
> --
>
> Muhammad Rizwan Khan
>

Muhammed, please scroll a little further down.

>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> #
> # Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers.
> # All rights reserved.
> # Copyright (c) 1983, 1995 Eric P. Allman. All rights reserved.
> # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
> # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> #
> # By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set
> # forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of
> # the sendmail distribution.
> #
> #
>
> ######################################################################
> ######################################################################
> #####
> ##### SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION FILE
> #####
> ##### built by root@Linuxtest on Fri Sep 26 11:26:17 PKST 2003
> ##### in /etc/mail
> ##### using /usr/share/sendmail-cf/ as configuration include directory
> #####
> ######################################################################
> #####
> ##### DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! Only edit the source .mc file.
> #####
> ######################################################################

Specifically read the comment in the file above. The .cf file is not
meant to be edited. You are not going to get a lot of help telling you
how to do this, because it's not really the way to do it. You might want
to hop over to www.sendmail.org, it's not a bad place to start.

Regards,
Ed.

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