Problem with sendmail config

April 6, 2015 2.3k views
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lukasmahl
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lukasmahl

Hello,
I have a little problem with sendmail. I installed sendmail a few days ago and setup it with the default values which are given when you run sendmailconfig. Everything worked fine, but a few days ago sendmail stopped working. And today I tried to reinstall it like I did it a few days ago. I have used all default values which sendmail suggested me. And now I´m getting this error:

Errors in generating sendmail.cf
*** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** FEATURE(smrsh) must occur before MAILER(local)
*** ERROR: MAILER(local) already included
*** ERROR: MAILER(smtp) already included

My config files:
sendmail.mc
sendmail.conf

I already got this error when I tried to install sendmail a few days ago but it worked anyway. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you to all helpers in advance.

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JamesMC June 24, 2016

Hello,

It appears that you have 3 lines 109 110 11 that include FEATURE settings after the MAILER settings. This generally causes an error with sendmail.

Even with the auto generated scripts this can happen at times. I would suggest moving those 3 lines above any MAILER configs so all your FEATURE config lines are above any MAILER config lines.

Then regenerate your sendmail config with sendmailconfig to regenerate things.

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