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From: mfuhr@dimensional.com (Michael Fuhr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Weird sendmail behavior
Date: 20 Jun 1997 09:08:10 -0600
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behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) writes:
> : 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.
>
> Nope, Mlocal is in there:
>
> Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qrmn9, S=10/30,
> R=20/40,
Oops -- sorry about having you look in the wrong place. Your error was
"unkown mailer ocal" so of course there's no Mocal line. See if some
rule specifies "ocal" instead of "local", probably in S0 or one of the
rulesets it calls. Something like this may help:
grep -n '[^l]ocal' sendmail.cf
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Michael Fuhr
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