I had this error a while back. Make sure the mailer is really there. I was
sure mine was, and accidentally found it had somehow disappeared????




>
> I'm trying to set up a central sendmail server for my home network. To
> a first approximation, what I want is just a place that will catch all
> the mail for 'root' and for crontab users, from two or three
> boxen, so that I only have to sit down at one box to get updates on the
> situation.
>
> I can't seem to find any FM to R for this task --- most seem to be
> aimed at either (a) sendmail for a single box with envelope
> masquerading or (b) sendmail for a box exposed to the internet doing
> general email service.
>
> I'm stumbling along, but keep getting the following errors when
> subsidiary boxen send email to the mail server:
>
>
> Mar 29 09:13:13 cthulhu sendmail[20590]: NOQUEUE: nyarlathotep
> [192.168.0.14] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to
> MTA
>
> the subsidiary box, nyarlathotep, is sending mail through mailx, the
> lightweight mailer that you get by default in Mandrake (both boxen are
> Mandrake 8.1).  Does anybody know if this mailer does something
> deviant with smtp?  Or is there perhaps some handshaking that's
> blocked by tcpwrappers on nyarlathotep?  Or, is this a problem because
> I don't have DNS on my subnet, and DNS lookup doesn't work to
> authenticate nyarlathotep?  I'm having a hard time even figuring out
> how to troubleshoot this and, as I said, my googling doesn't seem to
> help.
>
> Thanks,
> R
>
> P.S.  I have considered changing to qmail or postfix, but that seems
> like a big mess of additional cost, when the sendmail solution almost
> works.
>
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