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[John Olcott]

On a k570 box running 11.0, I'm trying to use sendmail to send an order which will execute a script. I keep getting unknown mailer error 5 in the mail log. I have no problem sending mail to the box, only when trying to execute this script. It works on another box we have so I duplicated everything: permissions,aliases file, sendmail.cf & cw files. Thanks

[nancy rippey]

I don't know if this will help or not, I found it on a sendmail faq

Q3.13 -- Why do I get "unknown mailer error 5 -- mail: options MUST PRECEDE recipients" errors?
Date: March 23, 1996
I just upgraded to version 8 sendmail and suddenly I get errors such as ``unknown mailer error 5 -- mail: options MUST PRECEDE recipients.'' What is going wrong?

You need OSTYPE(systype) in your .mc file, where "systype" is set correctly for your hardware & OS combination -- otherwise the configurations use a default that probably disagrees with your local mail system. See the configuration OSTYPE page for details.

If this is on a Sun workstation, you might also want to take a look at the local mailer flags in the Sun-supplied sendmail.cf and compare them to the local mailer flags generated for your version 8 sendmail.cf. If they differ, you might try changing the V8 flags to match the Sun flags.

[Sachin Patel]

Hi John,
you says you have no problem sending mail from this box (assuming from command line) I will say something is not write in script.

Is is shell script? what are the argument you are using?

Sachin