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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.0 sendmail question/problem Date: 17 Nov 1994 22:12:49 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3agkh1$7a7@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <3agbma$ncs@nyx.cs.du.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <3agbma$ncs@nyx.cs.du.edu> shepner@nyx.cs.du.edu (Stephen Hepner) writes: > >I can send email outside of the machine just fine. I just cant receive >any email whatsoever. When it first started up I shortly after got >several messages saying "problem creating SMTP socket" and "NOQUEUE: >SYSERR(root): getrequests: cannot bind: Address allready in use". Ever >since, I have been getting *lots* of messages in maillog saying "unknown >mailer error 1". > Sounds to me like you tried to start up another copy of sendmail? Just create the /etc/sendmail.cf, change /etc/netstart sendmail_flags, and reboot... Does root get any mail regarding this? Can you do "telnet localhost smtp" and talk to sendmail? -Andrew -- ========================================================== Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu LAN/WAN/Netware/Unix Analyst gillham@whirlpool.com ==========================================================