Operating system error

[Cade]

I am running sendmail 8.9.3 and Linux 2.0.36 and am having a problem
receiving mail. My machine takes the mail, but if you check the mail
(POP) you cannot retrieve it. The problem, I think, is that the
incoming mail stays in the /var/spool/mqueue directory and is not
transferred to the /var/spool/mail directory. (POP check the
/var/spool/mail directory which hasn't recieved the new messages.)

If I run the mailq command it shows the messages in the mqueue
directory with an error (Operating system error)

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

cwa...@columbus.rr.com

[Neil Rickert]

Cade <cwa...@pluto.bbni.com> writes:

>If I run the mailq command it shows the messages in the mqueue
>directory with an error (Operating system error)

Check your local mailer definition (the lines beginning 'Mlocal' in
'sendmail.cf'. Chance are that it either has the wrong program, or
the wrong path, for your local mailer. Compare with the definition
in the 'sendmail.cf' that came with your system.

[Supoeric]

Check your local delivery agent setting in sendmail. I bet you are using
rh5.2 (2.0.36-0.7), right? Perhaps either compile a 8.9.3 from scratch
or wait for RH's official rpm would be less of trouble upgrading than
via third party rpm.

Kenneth

Cade wrote:

> I am running sendmail 8.9.3 and Linux 2.0.36 and am having a problem
> receiving mail. My machine takes the mail, but if you check the mail
> (POP) you cannot retrieve it. The problem, I think, is that the
> incoming mail stays in the /var/spool/mqueue directory and is not
> transferred to the /var/spool/mail directory. (POP check the
> /var/spool/mail directory which hasn't recieved the new messages.)
>

> If I run the mailq command it shows the messages in the mqueue
> directory with an error (Operating system error)
>

> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> cwa...@columbus.rr.com