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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
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Message-ID: <3agkh1$7a7@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
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In article <3agbma$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
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