[Mailman-Users] installing mailman and sendmail
Shams Fantar
sfantar at snurf.info
Wed Apr 30 19:22:29 CEST 2008
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Dragon wrote:
>
> OK, I don't know this for certain, but that seems to me that sendmail is
> either not configured correctly or not running at all. Unfortunately, I
> am no expert on sendmail and I can't give any specific help on setting
> it up without digging into the documentation. But you can try a few
> things here to see what is going on.
>
> Are you able to send and receive mail from this box at all?
>
> What do you get after running the following (you will probably need to
> be root):
>
> ps aux | grep sendmail
>
> It should produce something like this (and possibly more entries):
>
> root 31013 0.0 0.2 9284 1196 ? Ss Mar29 2:44
> sendmail: accepting connections
Yes, sendmail is running.
>
> You mentioned earlier you could not find your sendmail.cf file, try:
>
> find / -name *.cf -print
No, I didn't say that (because sendmail.cf exists), I just said that
with "grep smrsh /etc/mail/sendmail.cf", I'm getting nothing with grep,
so, "smrsh" isn't in this file.
>
> I think you need to make certain that sendmail is set up correctly and
> can process mail before going forward with trying to troubleshoot mailman.
Yes, I think it's just a problem with sendmail (or with mailman).
>
>> PS : I'm running debian lenny/sid.
>
> It may be a good idea to check with debian support resources to help get
> this sorted out. It seems like every distribution does things a little
> bit different and they all seem to have their own ideas on what are the
> proper locations for things and the proper way to start daemons, etc.
>
Ok, if I don't manage to fixe the problem, I'll ask for helping on the
debian mailing list.
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