You need to put a local e-mail address in angle brackets after the ruleset number. > 3 <root at thishost.veldy.com> ... > 0 <root at thishost.veldy.com> it should give you something like: Parse1 returns: $# local... Going through ruleset 3 first will return the e-mail address to send to ruleset 0 after it's checked through aliases, virtusertable and all that other stuff. If you're just testing username at localhost you don't need that though. If it says that it's going to use the local mailer ($# local) then do: grep "^Mlocal" /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and make sure that the definition for the local delivery agent is correct. It'll probably be looking to use procmail, so you can test it directly by piping a message right to it. Here's my definition on whee.org: Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, make sure /usr/bin/procmail exists, then see if you can get procmail to deliver to a local mailbox. Maybe something as simple as a perm problem in /var/spool/mail or something. Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I get the following. No errors. > > [root at cascade cf]# sendmail -bt > ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked) > Enter <ruleset> <address> > > 3 > No address! > > 0 > No address! > > [root at cascade cf]# > > > Tom Veldhouse > veldy at veldy.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Adam Maloney <adamm at sihope.com> > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:10 AM > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20645] Sendmail - Operating system error! > > > > Are you sure local-host-names is a flat text file and not supposed to be a > > keyed database? > > > > If you do: > > sendmail -bt > > > 3 <root at your.machine.com> > > ... > > > 0 <root at your.machine.com> > > ... > > > > Do you get any more useful information? (use EOF to end test mode) > > > > see http://www.telekomnet.com/writer_allan/8-1-00_isp_104.asp by yours > > truly. I checked my facts by doing it under Linux, so it should work > > perfectly. > > > > Adam Maloney > > Systems Administrator > > Sihope Communications > > > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > > > I am trying to set up sendmail 8.11.0 (don't ask me why - I just want > to). I have it installed, I have the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf setup via the > generic-linux.mc file. > > > > > > I am trying to start sendmail in this way : > "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m" No problem it starts. I can send mail from > the local to computer to any other machine on the net. However, when I send > mail to my machine from elsewhere, or when I send local mail on my machine - > it never arrives. I look at the queue (sendmail -bp) and it shows two > entries in the queue. I have tried to force queue processing > (sendmail -v -q) and I am getting the following errors: > > > > > > [root at cascade cf]# sendmail -v -q > > > > > > Running /var/spool/mqueue/e7O0bRn27703 (sequence 1 of 2) > > > <root at cascade.veldy.net>... Connecting to local... > > > <root at cascade.veldy.net>... Operating system error > > > > > > Running /var/spool/mqueue/e7NKQf427623 (sequence 2 of 2) > > > <veldy at cascade.veldy.net>... Connecting to local... > > > <veldy at cascade.veldy.net>... Operating system error > > > > > > > > > Currently, it is running under the root user (right now it is a test box > and behind a firewall). I believe all permissions are correct. > > > > > > Incidentally, I followed all the instructions in the README and INSTALL > files throughout the distributions (yuck!) to set up sendmail from source. > I originally got the following error when starting sendmail: > > > > > > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 63: fileclass: cannot open > '/etc/mail/local-host-names': No such file or directory > > > > > > I created a file called /etc/mail/local-host-names with the following: > > > > > > cascade.veldy.net > > > localhost > > > > > > I tried many combinations of this to no effect. > > > > > > I have the latest bind installed on this machine also, but it is not > running. I am using DNS services on another host. > > > > > > Any help getting through this would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > > veldy at veldy.net > > > > > > P.S. I have appropriated "The Bat Book", but it has been of no help > solving this problem. 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