Bye Bye Sendmail, Hello Postfix

[PsychoJock]

I finally gave up on Sendmail, what a nightmare for the beginner!! i have dowloaded and installed Postfix. The configuration seems a lot simpler than Sendmail. I tweaked the main.cf and the server failed to start. I copied back in a 'Vanilla' main.cf and the server STILL fails to start, the maillog file lists this :-

May 27 05:07:52 mailweb sendmail[10821]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.99) failed: 1
May 27 05:07:52 mailweb sendmail[10821]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): No local mailer defined
May 27 05:07:52 mailweb sendmail[10821]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set

I am perplexed as to why it says sendmail when I'm using postfix. The sendmail server IS stopped.

This seems to me a lot closer to being running than I get with sendmail, can anyone help?

ps Thanks for the sendmail help lakshmipathi but it got the better of me in the end!!

[Lakshmipathi]

ps Thanks for the sendmail help lakshmipathi but it got the better of me in the end!!

But i think it's a wise decision ...i configured sendmail because i got no other options (as ppl rejected my suggestion to use postfix or qmail which was lot easier than sendmail)

All the best PsychoJock

Ps: I got no idea abt postfix,If find anything useful links i'll let you know ..bye

[jledhead]

May 27 05:07:52 mailweb sendmail[10821]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.99) failed: 1

that looks like a sendmail error, and a sendmail process.

If you are switching, I would stop sendmail and uninstall it.
what distro are you using and how did you install?

[PsychoJock]

Jledhead,
thanks for the reply, it would appear that the problem has cured itself as I now have Postfix running!! I didn't changed anything, just left it alone for a few hours and then Lo and Behold the service started successfully!! WEIRD!

Just for info I am running Fedora Core 5 (planning to update to Fedora 8 when I get some better hardware) and it was installed thus:-

yum install postfix

Take it easy!!

[jledhead]

its possible that those logs you were seeing were from sendmail when you were using sendmail, since sendmail and postfix share some of the same log files.

the best way to get an idea of what its currently doing is

tail -f name_of_log_file

a running tail.