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From: ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au (Ian Hoyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.65 problem
Keywords: sendmail 5.65 problem
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Date: 10 Jun 91 21:40:56 GMT
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volf@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (frank volf) writes:

>We took a copy of sendmail (sendmail.5.65apo.tar.Z) from master.uio.no and 
>installed the Apollo binary which was in the tarfile.

This is the sendmail I put up for anon ftp ~ 2 weeks ago which is shadowed by
master.uio.no.

>Unfortunately this sendmail this not work. Here is session that shows
>our problems:

>eba{volf}[//ebg/users/volf] 1 > mail volf
>Subject: test
>this is a test
>*** EOF *** 
>EOT
>volf... Connecting to  (local)...
>mail: mail: can't find mail group

>volf... Sent
>eba{volf}[//ebg/users/volf] 2 > mail maxad
>Subject: another test
>this is test 2
>*** EOF *** 
>EOT
>/usr/user/maxad/.forward: line 1: maxad... forwarding to volf@eb.ele.tue.nl
>volf@eb.ele.tue.nl... Connecting to  (local)...
>rgyc_$pgo_get_projlist: No such file or directory
>mail: mail: can't find mail group

>volf@eb.ele.tue.nl... Sent

>Needless to say: both mails do NOT arrive at their destination. If we change
>back to sendmail 5.61 everything works fine again.

>Has anyone seen this problem before????

No, several people have been using this without a problem so far. To
elaborate further, this version of sendmail is the
sendmail-5.65b+IDA-1.4.3 version supported at UIUC by Paul Pomes and Neil
Rickert. I built it under BSD, sr10.3 and cc6.7.

One possible thing to look at is what "mail" program you are using. If it
is /bin/mail then try using the Berkley mail program found in /usr/ucb/mail.
Also, does the "mail" group exist in your /etc/group file ?? /usr/spool/mail
should then have a group ownership of "mail".

	ian

>P.s.: we didn't compile the source ourselves. Could this be the problem????

Can't hurt, but this really shouldn't be necessary. :-)

	ian
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