How are you trying to "start sendmail"? If you are just trying "sendmail" as root, you're not starting the daemon up to listen for incoming mail, you're invoking the sendmail program as if you want to create a message. Try (as root) "/etc/init.d/sendmail start" and see what you get.
Sendmail is a bear to set up at first. It's a great MTA, very capable, but can be a bit intimidating to configure. If your needs on the box are fairly simple, you may want to consider using exim instead. As something else to consider: Do you need to receive mail on that box? For most of my machines, I have absolutely no need to receive email directly on the machine. The only machines I run sendmail on are those that are actual mail servers (those that are either receiving email for my domains or those that are relaying mail for my clients). The rest of my servers need to be able to send email (so that daemons can send error messages to me, and stuff like that). For all those servers, I run Exim setup to use a mail server as a smarthost. Most importantly, I remove exim from inetd.conf, so that they're never used to relay mail. --Rich Peter Donaldson wrote: > > I tried sendmailconfig but still i am having the same problem. I also can > not receive mail through that box :( > > -----Original Message----- > From: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:40 AM > To: Debian Users > Subject: Re: Sendmail > > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:26:26AM +1000, Peter Donaldson wrote: > > I have been having a problem with sendmail for a while but because i am > just > > playing with linux it hasn't really bothered me that much. But could > someone > > please healp me out. When i go to start sendmail it is giving me this > > message------> peter... Recipient names must be specified <------ Help > would > > b greatly appreciated :) > > > > Have you tried setting it up with "sendmailconfig"? > kent > > -- _________________________________________________________ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _________________________________________________________
