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From: mfuhr@dimensional.com (Michael Fuhr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Weird sendmail behavior
Date: 17 Jun 1997 17:26:20 -0600
Organization: Dimensional Communications
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behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) writes:
> I was trying to send mail from my ISP-connected box today, and got the
> following log entries:
>
> Jun 17 08:02:29 megaweapon sendmail[3583]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(matt):
> /etc/aliases: line 13: buildaddr: unknown mailer ocal
-snip-
> I haven't changed /etc/aliases or sendmail.cf from their default setups.
> What could have caused this? (I hung up and reconnected, and it was
> fine.)
Are you sure no person or program has mucked with /etc/sendmail.cf?
There should be a line that starts "Mlocal", but from the error it
looks like yours is "Mocal". Try "grep ocal /etc/sendmail.cf" and see
what you get.
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Michael Fuhr
http://www.dimensional.com/~mfuhr/