[NTLUG:Discuss] Curse Sendmail. Curse Linuxconf. Curse me. Help

[Bobby Sanders]

Thanks, BH.  I already had the latest sendmail for 6.2 but gave
uninstalling and installing a try.  (Sounded kinda' windowish,
though. :))  Still get the same error, but I did find a "stripcr"
option in fetchmail so I can now read mail without having to look at
all of those silly "^M"s.  I still have no idea why fetchmail is
"failing back to procmail."  Perhaps it always has and I just never
noticed it before, but I think that prior to linuxconf's belch, SMTP
must have been stripping the "cr"s.  Clearly I don't really understand
the connection between all of these different programs.  Perhaps that
will be my next project.

Thanks again.

Bobby

--On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:02:35 -0500 (CDT), Bug Hunter <bughuntr at one.ctelcom.net> said:

  BH>   I would remove (rpm -e sendmail) and then reinstall (rpm -i
  BH> sendmail*.rpm) the sendmail.
 
  BH>   Get the UPDATED sendmail from the ftp.redhat.com site.  It
  BH> fixes some security problems.  Note that the location of some
  BH> files has moved with the updated program. I think that
  BH> /etc/sendmail.cw changed its name and moved into /etc/mail.

  BH> bug


  BH> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Bobby Sanders wrote:

  >> // Resending 4/28/02.  Never saw this make it to the list.  If I
  >> missed it, I appologize for the duplicate. //
  >> 
  >> RH 6.2EE. Sendmail-8.11.6-1.6.y, fetchmail-5.9.0-0.6.2.  A few
  >> days ago, for some unknown reason, I opened up linuxconf.  (Every
  >> time I do that, I swear, "never again," but I never seem to have
  >> much luck following my own advice.  I made some tweaks (Oh, if I
  >> could only remember what they were), linuxconf belched and things
  >> got ugly.  All is back in shape now EXCEPT:
  >> 
  >> When I run fetchmail -v, I see the following:
  >> 
  >> reading message 1 of 27 (1766 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to
  >> localhost failed fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling
  >> back to /usr/bin/procmail-d %T#********************* flushed.
  >> 
  >> I check sendmail immediately and it appears to be running.
  >> 
  >> ($ ps ax | grep sendmail 25910 ?  S 0:00 sendmail: accepting
  >> connections)
  >> 
  >> Fetchmail then proceeds to suck the mail from the ISP, but all of
  >> the lines end with carriage returns (^M).  I just _hate_ it.
  >> What _have_ I done?  What _can_ I do?
  >> 
  >> As usual, ITYIA for suggestions, pointers, etc.
  >> 
  >> Bobby Sanders
  >> 
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