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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!144.212.95.13!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.ecrc.net!02-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!03-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!fstgal00.tu-graz.ac.at!not-for-mail From: schinagl@sztms.tu-graz.ac.at (Hermann Schinagl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Weird sendmail behavior Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:39:09 GMT Organization: Graz University of Technology Lines: 24 Message-ID: <33aa5be1.16365131@avlgate.avl.co.at> References: <5o6me2$p0n@news.gvsu.edu> <5o76es$l0s@flatland.dimensional.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: avlgate.avl.co.at X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43203 On 17 Jun 1997 17:26:20 -0600, mfuhr@dimensional.com (Michael Fuhr) wrote: >-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. > Well, there is another pitfall in sendmail.cf. If you change the space between the left hand (LHS) side and the right hand side (RHS) of a line in the sendmail.cf into, lets say TABs, sendmail gets crazy. This is a major pitfall, because you don't see the difference bewteen TABs and spaces in some editors!!!