What makes sendmail do this?
Murray S. Kucherawy
functional, except when receiving mail for local users, I get this:
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=============================== Murray S. Kucherawy ==========================
Motorola Canada, Ltd. Communications Division, Toronto [on work term]
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Jonathan I. Kamens
|> I'm working on configuring a sendmail daemon, and I have it completely
|> functional, except when receiving mail for local users, I get this:
|>
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|> mail: Options MUST PRECEDE persons
|> 554 <murrayk@server1>... unknown mailer error 5
|>
Well, since you did not provide your sendmail.cf file, I can only guess at
what the problem is, but a pretty good guess is that the command line
specification for the local mailer specification is screwed up.
For example, my local mailer specification looks like this:
Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail -d $u
I suspect you've got the "$u" and the "-d" switched, like this:
Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail $u -d
At least, that's what the error message you're getting seems to imply.
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Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO
>In article <5...@motto.UUCP>, mur...@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy) writes:
>|> I'm working on configuring a sendmail daemon, and I have it completely
>|> functional, except when receiving mail for local users, I get this:
>|>
>|> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>|> mail: Options MUST PRECEDE persons
>|> 554 <murrayk@server1>... unknown mailer error 5
>|>
>
> Well, since you did not provide your sendmail.cf file, I can only guess at
>what the problem is, but a pretty good guess is that the command line
>specification for the local mailer specification is screwed up.
>
> For example, my local mailer specification looks like this:
>
> Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail -d $u
>
>I suspect you've got the "$u" and the "-d" switched, like this:
>
> Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail $u -d
>
>At least, that's what the error message you're getting seems to imply.
Another cause I've seen is that some /bin/mail programs don't like 'r'
in the Flags section. Try it as
Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=lsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail -d $u
The best thing to do is to compare entries for the local mailer against
a sendmail.cf file that's known to work on your system.
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