Sendmail problem

[Andrzej Filip]

Patrick Nelson wrote:
> RH9 w/ cyrus-imap 2.1.13 and cyrus-sasl-2.1.13 using sasl to connect to
> a ldap server.
> 
> I used cyradm to setup a user and connected to the server with
> evolution.  However, when I try to send a test email by telnet to the
> smtp port.  I get sendmail errors like:
> 
> May 12 22:24:22 co sendmail[17389]: h4BB2fYm013251: to=<root at cyrus1>,
> delay=1+18:21:41, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=cyrusv2, pri=4080285,
> relay=localhost, dsn=4.3.5, stat=Deferred: No such file or directory
> May 12 22:24:22 co sendmail[17389]: h4BBTWYm016855: to=<root at cyrus1>,
> delay=1+17:54:49, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=cyrusv2, pri=4080466,
> relay=localhost, dsn=4.3.5, stat=Deferred: No such file or directory

The most likely reason is that you sendmail looks for LMTP unix socket in 
wrong place. The default location of the socket configured in 
MAILER(`cyrusv2') provided by sendmail.org is /var/imap/socket/lmtp

If you want your sendmail use the socket localted in another location then in 
*.mc file you use to generate sendmail.cf add
define(`CYRUSV2_MAILER_ARGS',`FILE _lmtp_socket_path_')dnl

If "sendmail" -bh reports "Deferred:" for localhost then you may delete 
localhost file in sendmail hoststatus directory [sendmail keeps info about 
result of last delivery attempt to avoid wasting resources for connecting down 
hosts].

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Andrzej [pl>en: Andrew] Adam Filip http://www.polbox.com/a/anfi/