sendmail does not work

[Barbara Kramer]

Hi,
Sendmail has been working great. Sending mails to our exchange.
Since I have installed fetchmail (no config done, yet), sendmail would send adresses like
username@exchangename.ourdomain.de, insead of username@ourdomain.de. Exchange does not know what to do with such an address.
Now I have deinstalled fetchmail and wanted to stop sendmail:
/usr/sbib/sendmail stop
stop... User unknown
I can not stop sendmail. I do not want to kill the process. I have more than one problem:
1: why do I get message 'User unknown' when trying to stop sendmail
2: when sending mail with
sendmail -v -d7.99 -d38.99 b.kramer@nutricia.com
I get amoung message:
getcanonname(pnw2k01.pfrimmer.de), found
means getcanonname(exchangeservername.domain.de)

can anyone help?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

If its not broke, why were you trying to fix it? You are using mail relay. The mail transport is not very important. The easy answer is to back out the fetchmail configuration.

/etc/init.d/sendmail stop
# normally will stop sendmail The service command is provided in many Linux distributions.

I'd really take a step back and continue to let sendmail handle forwarding if I were you.

SEP

[Danny Petterson - DK]

You might want to restore you sendmail conf-files from before the fetchmail-installation.

[Barbara Kramer]

Hi Sep,
I was happy sendmail was working great!
But I also need fetchmail on this server to pick up mails from the exchange.
As soon as I had it installed, my sendmail did not work anymore.
Now, I deinstalled fetchmail. Yet, sendmail is still not working.
By the way I have HPUX 11.11 on this machine.
stopping sendmail is still not working
Barbara

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom again.

fetchmail is supposed to be a client product.

You can either relay mail through the exchange server as I believe you were successfully doing or you can fetch mail from the exchange server.

The appropriate client for that second task would be the evolution mail client.

I strongly recommend restoring the original configuration as noted by my colleagues's post.

SEP

[Barbara Kramer]

Hi,
and peace be with you, too, as well as god's blessings throughout.
I have reinstalled sendmail. Reconfigured apache - www is sending the mails and installed fetchmail to pick up mails on the same sever. All is working great.
thought I let you know.
Thanks for all your advice
god bless all
Barbara