Re: Fetchmail problem

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:11:13 -0700, Annelise Anderson <impala87@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mel Flynn wrote:
On Monday 20 April 2009 09:12:32 Annelise Anderson wrote:

Fbsd1 wrote:

Annelise Anderson wrote:

I am trying to use fetchmail on FreeBSD but get the message:

fetchmail: SMTP< 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address
owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx does not resolve


The question isn't whether you can resolve it, but whether your
mailserver can. Check your mail log for the smtp server. If the
mailserver is chrooted, check for $chrootdir/etc/resolv.conf.

I don't know how to read sendmail.st, but the mailserver (sendmail) is
not chrooted.

In /var/log/messages I get this, but it doesn't seem to relate to
anything in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:

Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1: unknown configuration line "7A
"
Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 2: invalid argument to V line: "E
RSIONID(\001FreeBSD: s"

Hmmm, it looks like your `sendmail.cf' has been overwritten by an
unexpanded copy of `sendmail.mc'. What do you see with:

% diff -u /etc/mail/freebsd.mc /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

If this shows only a few lines of local changes, then you should keep a
backup copy of the current `/etc/mail/sendmail.cf' file and then try to
macro-expand it with the `/etc/mail/Makefile' machinery to generate a
real `sendmail.cf' file...

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