Following upgrade to FreeBSD v10.1,
There are several configuration file relationships that I do not understand.
In the base distribution there is no sendmail.mc file; however, there is a sendmail.cf that contains the following admonishment:
. . .so where/what is the "source" file?
Also, I don't understand why there are files such as freebsd.cf and freebsd.mc. You will not find these files mentioned in the following publication:
sendmail, 4th Edition
By Bryan Costales, Claus Assmann, George Jansen, Gregory Neil Shapiro
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: October 2007
Pages: 1312
Regardless, I installed the missing file from a previous working version of the sendmail.mc file, ran
There seems to be a break in the alias scenario. Can anyone suggest what I may be missing here?
sendmail
seems to ignore the /etc/mail/virtusertable. I expected that by moving my previous working configuration files to the v10.1 platform, all would be functional as previously installed. When I try to send an eMail document to my alias, Ron.Wingfield, the system fails with the following message:
Code:
[INDENT]An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.1.1 <Ron.Wingfield@archaxis.net>... User unknown. Please check the message recipient Ron.Wingfield@archaxis.net and try again.[/INDENT]
To my knowledge, I have run the requisite makes
and restarts
, etc. Nothing seems to work. I can only send-from and receive-to my actual FreeBSD user id, rtwingfield.There are several configuration file relationships that I do not understand.
In the base distribution there is no sendmail.mc file; however, there is a sendmail.cf that contains the following admonishment:
Code:
DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! Only edit the source .mc file.
Also, I don't understand why there are files such as freebsd.cf and freebsd.mc. You will not find these files mentioned in the following publication:
sendmail, 4th Edition
By Bryan Costales, Claus Assmann, George Jansen, Gregory Neil Shapiro
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: October 2007
Pages: 1312
Regardless, I installed the missing file from a previous working version of the sendmail.mc file, ran
make
, service sendmail restart
, etc., yet no joy.There seems to be a break in the alias scenario. Can anyone suggest what I may be missing here?