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Mark Williams (mark@techop.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: I have been trying to get sendmail 8.6.9 working for several months now
: and have had little success. I have tried 100's of sendmail.cf's which
: don't work.

: We connect to internet with PPP (via a modem) from a Solaris machine
: and we have several HP-UX machines internally. We keep getting the
: following errors when sending from out hub to another internal machine :-

: --- cut here ---

: From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Sep  7 10:05 BST 1994
: Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 10:04:41 +0100
: From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
: Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
: To: Postmaster
: MIME-Version: 1.0

: The original message was received at Wed, 7 Sep 1994 10:04:39 +0100
: from root@localhost

:    ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
: root  (unrecoverable error)

:    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
: mail: can't send to -d
: mail: cannot create dead.letter
: 550 root... User unknown

: --- cut here ---

: and the following problem when we try to send from an internal machine to
: out hub :-

: --- cut here ---

: From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Sep  7 10:05 BST 1994
: Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 10:05:25 +0100
: From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
: Subject: Returned mail: Can't create output: Permission denied
: To: Postmaster
: MIME-Version: 1.0

: The original message was received at Wed, 7 Sep 1994 10:03:54 +0100
: from root@localhost

:    ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
: root@zebedee  (unrecoverable error)

:    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
: 553 root@zebedee... user address required
: 550 /root/dead.letter... Can't create output: Permission denied

:    ----- Message header follows -----

: --- cut here ---

: If you think you can help I'll send a copy of the sendmail.cf.

I think you may find that the problem is your local mail delivery agent.

Try compiling up the mail.local which is supplied for use with Linux,
this might fix things for you....

Feel free to voice me on the number below if you want some help.

Karl
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