On July 10, 2008 10:24:08 am GVG GVG wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Will Maier <willmaier@ml1.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 04:26:38PM +0200, GVG GVG wrote:
> > > In a sendmail book I found following entry they suggested to put
> > > in the .mc file. Could be the reason for my problems?
> > >
> > > --------------
> > > dnl define(`confCRL', `CERT_DIR/crl/crl.pem')dnl
> > > -------------
> >
> > No. So you updated your .mc file as above, installed it as
> > /etc/mail/localhost.cf and HUPed sendmail? By default on OpenBSD,
> > sendmail is started with the following flags:
> >
> >    -L sm-mta -C/etc/mail/localhost.cf -bd -q30m
> >
> > If you installed your new .cf file as sendmail.cf, sendmail won't
> > read it (unless you change or drop the -C flag).
> >
> > --
> >
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> >
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> >
> > *---------------------[ BSD: Live Free or Die ]--------------------*
>
> correct but I didn't install as 'localhost' but as 'sendmail.cf'. My server
> does accept mails from the outside world! After that I did restart the box!
> Sendmail gets started as:
>
> sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -C/etc/mail/sendmail.cf -bd -qp -B8BITMIME -X
> /[$HOME]/mail_log"

I don't think -B8BITMIME works with sendmail on OpenBSD -- at least it does 
not on my 4.3 i386 from CD and on 4.4 -current. Were you thinking of 
EightBitMode=mode or do you have any errors on /var/log/maillog with this 
flag?


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