Daemon sendmail doesn't start

[Jordi Gras]

Hi everybody!

We are trying to start daemon sendmail (/sbin/init.d/sendmail start), but no process starts. What's the matter?

Jordi

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[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

You need to change the following line (i.e. set the variable) in /etc/rc.config.d/mail to activate sendmail:

export SENDMAIL_SERVER=1

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

After changing /etc/rc.config.d/mail, remember to re-run the startup script:

# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Stefan Farrelly]

The previous reply should say change the file;

/etc/rc.config.d/mailservs

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the correction.

It should be /etc/rc.config.d/mailserv

and not:

/etc/rc.config.d/mail

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Jordi Gras]

Hi,

The problem is that the command: /sbin/init.d/sendmail start, doesn't do anything. It doesn't return any message nor errors. We look for the process it must be running but there is nothing executing.

In the other hand, that's what we want to do:

From one server (escp) we want to send mail to Internet through the SMTP server (hono). That server (hono) can send without problems mail to Internet. And we can access server hono from server escp by port 25 (telnet hono 25).
We don't use DNS.

Thank you in advance,

Jordi

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
give this again.
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start
and look for any errors given in
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
#tail /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Jordi Gras]

Hi,
There is no error entries on syslog.log, only two entries some hours ago:

Jul 22 11:37:48 escp inetd [519]: ident/tcp: Exit status 1

Jordi

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
Ok.
#/sbin/init.d/sendmail start
#tail /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

get back with results.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Jordi Gras]

Hi,

No new entries on mail.log.

Jordi

[U.SivaKumar_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,
Ok do this.
#sendmail -bd -q10m
Now any errors ?
regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Jordi Gras]

Hi,

We received the follow message:

Jul 22 08:24:33 escp sendmail[3050]: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: WARNING: dangerous write permissions

And finally started sendmail daemon.

Now that we can start the daemon, we tried to send a mail to Internet but doesn't work. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Jordi

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
edit /etc/sendmail.cf
put you ip address of hono server in DS macro
like this,
DS[x.x.x.x]
where x.x.x.x is the ip address of hono server.
put this also in the same file.
Cwlocalhost hono escp yourdomain.com
Save the file and restart sendmail. Now you will be able to relay your mails to hono server
from where mails will be forwarded to internet.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Jordi Gras]

Hi,

We did the changes but without effect. These are the new entries on mail.log

Thank you in advance,

Jordi

[benoit Bruckert]

Hi Jordi,
First, about write permission, check authorization on /etc and /etc/mail, and /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (which should be read only !).
Second, about sending to internet, from your log, I can say you hahe a trouble with DNS. Can you resolve dns from your host to internet ?
There's some specific configs to make work sendmail wihout DNS (see www.sendmail.org).
If you have a DNS, it'll be quicker for you to configure your host as a DNS client.
Check it with nslookup ..
hope that help,
Benoit

[benoit Bruckert]

Hi again,
You can follow this url, to know how to configure sendmail without DNS :
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xa06d42308663d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Hope that help
Benoit

[Jordi Gras]

Hi,

I tried the changes without effect.

From escp server, we can't resolve Internet adresses. But from hono (SMTP server), we can send mails to Internet without any problem.
So, we are missing some configuration to send the mails to Internet from escp through hono.

Thanks in advance,

Jordi

[Stefan Farrelly]

2 ways to do this from server escp

1. echo test | mailx -s"" joe.bloggs%domain@hono

When the email gets to server hono it will change email address to job.bloggs@domain and will send out to the internet

2. edit the file /etc/mail/aliases on hono and add an entry like this;
temp : job.bloggs@domain

Save it and run newaliases. Now from server escp you can send to;
echo test | mailx -s"" temp@hono
and it will expand out to joe.bloggs@domain and go out to the internet.

[Jordi Gras]

Hi Stefan,

That's right, it works!

Thank you very much,

Jordi