Re: sendmail on solaris 10 broken?

From: Giorgos Keramidas (keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr)
Date: 08/30/05


Date: 30 Aug 2005 18:39:38 +0300

jdh13 <jdh13@free.fr> writes:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>> Aug 30 07:15:00 scr sendmail[14873]: [ID 801593 mail.alert]
>>> j7U5F0v0014873: Losing ./qfj7U5F0v0014873: savemail panic
>>> Aug 30 07:15:00 scr sendmail[14873]: [ID 801593 mail.crit]
>>> j7U5F0v0014873: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere
>>
>> This probably means you have set up no alias for postmaster and/or root
>> and a message bounced. The bounce tried to reach postmaster and failed,
>> bouncing once more, etc.
>
> it's more simple:
> in solaris 10, sendmail is tcp-wrapped, so on this machine,
> /etc/hosts.allow exists, but don't contains a line as:
> sendmail: ALL (or LOCAL)
> so i added this line and every thing is ok now

Cool! Thanks for the followup with the real answer. I've added it to
my ``Sendmail Setup on Solaris 10'' notes.