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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: What makes sendmail do this?
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Date: 25 Mar 91 09:17:06 GMT
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In article <542@motto.UUCP>, murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy) writes:
|> I'm working on configuring a sendmail daemon, and I have it completely
|> functional, except when receiving mail for local users, I get this:
|> 
|> ...
|> 
|>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
|> mail: Options MUST PRECEDE persons
|> 554 <murrayk@server1>... unknown mailer error 5
|> 
|> ...

  Well, since you did not provide your sendmail.cf file, I can only guess at
what the problem is, but a pretty good guess is that the command line
specification for the local mailer specification is screwed up.

  For example, my local mailer specification looks like this:

	Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail -d $u

I suspect you've got the "$u" and the "-d" switched, like this:

	Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail $u -d

At least, that's what the error message you're getting seems to imply.

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