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  • Error in checksendmaiil - fixes

    From News 2021@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 24 23:14:45 2021
    Due to a sequence of events (mailer motherboard let out magic smoke and
    none of my scsi I/o cards are modern enough), I'm forced to build a new sendmail installation from scratch.

    In attempting to check config(it is not working), I'm trying to diagnose problems, I'm using checksendmail and getting the following error;

    sudo checksendmail
    Type of arg 1 to shift must be array (not constant item) at /usr/sbin/ checksendmail line 40, near "ARGV) "
    Execution of /usr/sbin/checksendmail aborted due to compilation errors.

    Does anyone have any ideas for a fix?
    It is a new/latest(?) installation via Debian buster.

    L.S.; this mailer has been working since I first swapped from SMTP t
    Sendmail on a Redhat very early system and is like the old axe in that it
    has survived various OS version upgrades and distro changes and the NBK
    <vbg> has completely forgotten all he did to set it up.

    So far it is passing logcheck messages and nothing else.

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  • From Claus =?iso-8859-1?Q?A=DFmann?= @21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 25 06:45:33 2021
    News 2021 wrote:

    In attempting to check config(it is not working), I'm trying to diagnose

    Do you have a better problem description than "it is not working"?

    sudo checksendmail
    Type of arg 1 to shift must be array (not constant item) at /usr/sbin/

    Does anyone have any ideas for a fix?

    Ask Debian? That script is not supplied by sendmail.

    But why do you want to fix some script instead of your sendmail
    installation?

    What happens when you try to send mail
    $ date | sendmail -v $USER
    # date | sendmail -Am -v $USER
    # date | sendmail -Am -v $USER@REMOTE.HOST
    etc.
    Check the output of the commands and the logfile.


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  • From News 2021@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 25 09:06:28 2021
    On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 06:45:33 +0000, Claus Aßmann scribed:

    News 2021 wrote:

    In attempting to check config(it is not working), I'm trying to
    diagnose

    Do you have a better problem description than "it is not working"?

    sudo checksendmail
    Type of arg 1 to shift must be array (not constant item) at /usr/sbin/

    Does anyone have any ideas for a fix?

    Ask Debian? That script is not supplied by sendmail.

    Thanks

    But why do you want to fix some script instead of your sendmail
    installation?

    What happens when you try to send mail $ date | sendmail -v $USER # date
    | sendmail -Am -v $USER # date | sendmail -Am -v $USER@REMOTE.HOST etc.
    Check the output of the commands and the logfile.

    At the time I had non-working new installation and was looking for hints
    to fit it.

    It turned out to be a faulty sendmail.mc, so I went back to the supplied sendmail.mc and did the routine of testing after each change and a bit
    more reading on the few few good sendmail fault posts on the internet
    and eventually have a working sendmail.

    Is it just me and a useless search engine(duckduckgo), but there seems to
    be very few useful information posts on sendmail these days.

    Caveat, I've hardly had to fiddle with the mailer systemm over the last
    ~20 years. It has just worked well through OS/distro upgrades ad distro changes.

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  • From Andrzej Adam Filip@21:1/5 to @esmtp.org on Sun Apr 25 17:47:52 2021
    Claus Aßmann <ml+sendmail(-no-copies-please)@esmtp.org> wrote:
    News 2021 wrote:

    In attempting to check config(it is not working), I'm trying to diagnose

    Do you have a better problem description than "it is not working"?

    sudo checksendmail
    Type of arg 1 to shift must be array (not constant item) at /usr/sbin/

    Does anyone have any ideas for a fix?

    Ask Debian? That script is not supplied by sendmail.
    […]

    It may be reported to debian as bug in sendmail-base package.
    Debian bug reports may be reported using reportbug program provided by reportbug package.

    AFAIK Debian sendmail-bug package is orphaned (no maintainer).

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    [Andrew] Andrzej A. Filip

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 25 11:37:05 2021
    On 4/25/21 3:06 AM, News 2021 wrote:
    Is it just me and a useless search engine(duckduckgo), but there
    seems to be very few useful information posts on sendmail these days.

    Sendmail has definitely fallen out of vogue. I think that the
    anti-Sendmail sentiment has also largely fallen out of vogue too.
    Meaning that most of the industry has moved on to other things.

    Such is the nature of things that run for years at a time tirelessly
    doing something that many people find to be boring or think is too
    difficult and beyond their capability.

    Caveat, I've hardly had to fiddle with the mailer systemm over the
    last ~20 years. It has just worked well through OS/distro upgrades
    ad distro changes.

    I almost said "just worked" in the previous statement. However Sendmail
    can be quite persnickety about things and does require some effort to
    work as desired. But once configured, it just runs.



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