Sendmail

[chenn]

I have the following problem:
There is a mailserver I didn't set up, it's runinng sendmail. Whenever a person sends a mail out, the recipient gets a least 5 copies of that mail but sometimes up to 30 copies, which is quite annoying. I'm not into sendmail that much, as I consider qmail a better choice.
So if someone had this problem or knows about it, please let me know! Thanks!
regards
chenn

 

[mbaranski]

On my system, in the /etc/rcX.d, where X is the current runlevel (probably 4 or 5), you can just remove the S##sendmail , where ## are integers, and this will remove the sendmail script from the startup stuff and disable it. I'm running RH, so I don't know how other systems do it, but yours may work like this. Just remove the sendmail start scripts from the runlevel directory and it should not start.
Good Luck!

MWB As always, I hope that helped!

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[GunJack]

Sounds like there's a problem in the Sendmail rule sets. These are complicated and I think you're going to need a Sendmail person to debug them. I would also check your alias file as well as your virtuser table to make sure there isn't any unusual routing going on in those places as well. These two are pretty easy to read and it should be obivous if there's a problem in one of them.

 

[chenn]

The problem seems to be solved, it was a wrong systemtime, causing these problems... why can't people set up ntp?

thanks to everyone trying to help! regards
chenn