[wplug] postfix problem progress

duncanhutty at comcast.net duncanhutty at comcast.net
Fri Aug 27 15:11:37 EDT 2004


Possibly the easiest way to verify this is to set up another mail client. If you can get it to work without modifying postfix, then it shows your problem is not with postfix.
Duncan Hutty.

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> kiesling+ at pitt.edu wrote: 
> > 
> > Hi all- 
> > 
> > I have been able to figure out that the problem is probably that I need 
> > to have the sendmail command use "sendmail -t" (apparently this was 
> > changed from 2.0 to 2.1). Of course, when I send mail from pine I don't 
> > actually issue the sendmail command myself from the command line. Does 
> > anyone know how to have the relevant daemon use this option? 
> 
> What daemon? 
> 
> The only use for the sendmail program that ships with Postfix is to mimic 
> the behaviour of the sendmail MTA for client programs that expect it. 
> It is not used anywhere in the mail processing process. It shoudl not 
> be called by any other Postfix process. 
> 
> If I'm understanding you correctly, it sounds like Pine needs to be 
> taught the correct way to call the sendmail interface. Check your 
> Pine config. 
> 
> HTH. 
> 
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> Bill Moran 
> Potential Technologies 
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