How to install Sendmail on a new server? // Crucial Paradigm

May 22, 2009

How to install Sendmail on a new server?

yum install sendmail

If you are getting the following error in /var/log/maillog while sending an email
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Dec 4 09:01:28 servername sendmail[12467]: iA4H1SCV012467: to=whoever@domain.com, ctladdr=whatever
(whatever/groupid), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30059, relay=[127.0.0.1]
[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
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1) Make sure that 127.0.0.1 is listed in /etc/mail/access and /etc/hosts.

2) In the file /etc/mail/sendmail.mc comment out the line below by prepending it with ‘dnl”,like

dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA’)

3 Rebuild sendmail.cf

m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

4)Restart sendmail

service sendmail restart

While rebuilding, some times we may encounter the following error:
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/etc/mail/sendmail.mc:10: m4: cannot open `/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4′: No such file or directory
======================
Then

>> yum install sendmail-cf

After that repeat, step 3 and 4. Now try to send mail using “mail -v” and it should work fine.

Thanks Gopi for this article!

Tags: linux, mail, server-administration

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February 18, 2008

Problems Logging into Horde - cPanel

When you are having problems logging into Horde on cPanel, and just keep getting the same login page over and over again. This is usually due to the horde_sessionhandler table being corrupt in the Horde database. You can usually fix the issues with logging into Horde by doing one of the following steps:

1. In MySQL try: repair table horde_sessionhandler;

If this does not fix the issue, try the following:

2. In MySQL delete, and recreate the horde_sessionhandler table as follows:

drop table horde_sessionhandler;

CREATE TABLE horde_sessionhandler (session_id VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,

session_lastmodified INT NOT NULL, session_data LONGBLOB,PRIMARY KEY

(session_id)) ENGINE = InnoDB;

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON horde_sessionhandler TO horde@localhost;