Re: sendmail problem

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:21:57PM -0700, Rolf MOLUH wrote:
> Jun 30 23:45:42 tangmbo sendmail[1889]: f5UMjbU01889:
> SYSERR(root): Cannot open hash database
> /etc/mail/deny.db: Invalid argument

Well, t looks like it is trying to open /etc/mail/deny.db which does not
exist.

Perhaps there is a file /etc/mail/deny which has not been converted into a
.db file. Try

# cd /etc/mail
# ls

and see if there is a script which will do it for you (or a Makefile, in
which case you just type 'make'). At worst you can do it manually:

# makemap hash /etc/mail/deny </etc/mail/deny

> Jun 30 23:45:42 tangmbo sendmail[1891]: f5UMjgU01891:
> ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<njilier at yahoo.com>,
> relay=IDENT:root at host-216-252-234-39.interpacket.net
> [216.252.234.39], reject=551 5.7.1 we do not relay

Hmm. This might be caused by your missing db file, or your sendmail
configuration may require /etc/mail/access[.db] to allow relaying.

Check if you are using the original sendmail.cf from an ancient RedHat, and
if so it may make sense to build a new sendmail.cf from m4 configs. Looking
at some of my old notes, /etc/mail/deny was part of an anti-relaying hack
for the old sendmails supplied with RH4.x and RH5.x, and is now obsolete.

Brian.

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