I also can't get sendmail to work

[buc99]

I've followed all of the directions out there to get sendmail running. Yet I can't seem to get it to work correctly. I checked the mail.log and found the following:

Dec 6 03:15:02 localhost postfix/sendmail[318]: fatal: execv /usr/local/bin/showq: No such file or directory
Dec 10 03:15:02 localhost postfix/sendmail[353]: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
Dec 10 03:15:02 localhost postfix/sendmail[354]: fatal: execv /usr/local/bin/showq: No such file or directory
Jan 10 03:15:02 localhost postfix/sendmail[18016]: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
Jan 10 03:15:02 localhost postfix/sendmail[18017]: fatal: execv /usr/local/bin/showq: No such file or directory
Jan 11 03:15:02 localhost postfix/sendmail[1316]: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
Jan 11 03:15:02 localhost postfix/sendmail[1317]: fatal: execv /usr/local/bin/showq: No such file or directory
Jan 15 03:15:03 localhost postfix/sendmail[399]: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
Jan 15 03:15:03 localhost postfix/sendmail[400]: fatal: execv /usr/local/bin/showq: No such file or directory
Jan 19 00:44:55 localhost postfix/sendmail[1303]: fatal: execv /usr/local/bin/smtpd: No such file or directory
^C

Any help would definately be appreciated.

Thanks,
SA

 

[scruffy]

I have not actually heard any reports of anyone getting sendmail to work on OS X. Why the os came with a defective sendmail install is anybody's guess...

I am using postfix - www.postfix.org - it's designed to work as a swap-in replacement for sendmail, and to be considerably more secure and easy to manage. The config was fairly easy, although you do have to use niutil to add a couple of users and a group (don't use users control panel)

Hope this helps...

 

[yoshi]

I got it working.. heh heh heh

there is a line in the .conf you have to edit..

Find it and Sendmail works flawlessly

`Yoshi

 

[buc99]

Thanks.
What .conf file?
What line?
And what does it need to be changed to?

Thanks,
SA

 

[yoshi]

ok now you have to make me remember... ok ok

goto
/etc/mail

then sudo pico sendmail.cf

then comment out this line:
file containing names of hosts for which we receive email
/etc/mail/local-host-names


and sendmail should now start...