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After posting on this site for a bit it's time to move to the world of Domino (not by choice). Good luck to all you remaining Sendmail Die Hards !!!! Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

Check your permissions and make sure that you can actually create the PID where it needs to be. Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

Sendmail doesn't deliver mail to inboxes because it's an MTA or mail transport system. It's primary function is to move mail between systems. Delivery to inboxes is handled by the LDA or local delivery agent e.g. procmail. Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

http://www.sendmail.org/compiling.html Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

Did you check your permissions on the aliases db ? Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

Check your syntax: makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access - no good makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db < /etc/mail/access Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

Afterthought: You will of course have to add the tld. spamdomain.com spammer.net Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

Coonfigure the location of your aliases database in the sendmail.mc (or the sendmail.cf if you're feeling brave. Here's an example of what it looks like in the mc file define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/mail/aliases')dnl Run the m4 preprocessor to build a new sendmail.cf m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc >...

spamdomain REJECT or spamdomain DISCARD Depending on how taxed your box is, the DISCARD has a lower overhead because it does not need to invoke the mailer. Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

Midiean, This sounds a little familiar. Don't try to configure and maintain a mail system with tools that are inherently broken. Would you like my help in building your mail server ? It can be done without linuxconf & mailconf. Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

Look at the access file .... put the domains you want to relay for in there. Aleonhardt was correct, it's ususally int the /etc/mail dir. domain1 RELAY domain2 RELAY hash the file to access.db and you'll be in be OK. Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

The message was a message to a user, from the user from another mail server As long as you are not relaying mail for that other domain I don't see the problem. Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

Are you running any transport layer security ? If you are running something like ssl you'll need to make sure that sendmail was compiled with support for ssl ? If you are not running any TLS make sure that the mail client is not set up with any kind of added security. Cogito Ergo Sum - Non...

This could be a dns/Rdns issue but maybe it's an ident query problem. Try this, edit your sendmail.cf and look for the following line: #O Timeout.ident=0 Remove the hash, save the file and restart sendmail. Also make sure your DNS resolver/forwarders are working properly. Cogito Ergo Sum - Non...

This is not a function of sendmail because sendmail is an MTA. Use your LDA or local deliver agent e.g. procmail or read the man pages for the vacation program which can be invoked before delivery. If you go the procmail route I'll post my autoresponder for you. Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

Check how your access file is set up. You should be relaying for localhost and/or the IP of your mail system only. Your domain name should also be included here. localhost RELAY 127.0.0.1 RELAY yourdomain.ca RELAY 123.45.67.89 RELAY (dotted decimal address of email "source" -...

Read the FAQ on sendmail.org, give it a try yourself and then post any questions you have. Also get yourself a copy of the Bat Book 3rd edition. It's the Sendmail "bible". Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

The standard pop3 server that comes with RH Linux has always worked like a charm. I've built serveral Sendmail boxes on many distros of Unix & Linux and this one never gave me any problems...... not that the others did either but this is just an easy install. Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

Linuxconf and its module "mailconf" are wel known to be broken, plus they are based on very old rulesets from 8.8.7 Don't edit the sendmail.cf yourself .... it's a nightmare. Instead edit the sendmail.mc file and then build your cf from there. Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis

Don't use Linuxconf it's broken. Cogito Ergo Sum - Non Compos Mentis