sendmail

[John Olcott]

On a k570 box running hpux 11.0, I'm getting a sendmail error: unknown mailer error 126.

[Helen French]

Hi,

The unknown mailer error usually means that the user or process sending the mail is not recognised (trusted. Try checking the permission of all sendmail configuration/executable files.

HTH,
Shiju

[Mark Greene_1]

the message refers to the actual code of 126; sendmail does not recognize that, so this is how it gets reported. restart sendmail in debug mode (man sendmail for the flag, -d I think) and then the errors will hit the mail log and perhaps shed more light on where in the process they are being generated.

HTH
mark

[Dan Am]

Hi John,
not many details here.
First guesses:
1. Check for /etc/aliases or $HOME/.forward files calling a mailer not recognized in /etc/sendmail.cf ie.:

grep "mailer in aliases" /etc/sendmail.cf.

If you get no hit, there's your problem.

Otherwise it could be perms, like Shiju mentioned.

hth

Regrds
Dan