What makes sendmail do this?

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <542 at motto.UUCP>, murray at motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy) writes:
|> I'm working on configuring a sendmail daemon, and I have it completely
|> functional, except when receiving mail for local users, I get this:
|> 
|> ...
|> 
|>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
|> mail: Options MUST PRECEDE persons
|> 554 <murrayk at server1>... unknown mailer error 5
|> 
|> ...

  Well, since you did not provide your sendmail.cf file, I can only guess at
what the problem is, but a pretty good guess is that the command line
specification for the local mailer specification is screwed up.

  For example, my local mailer specification looks like this:

	Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail -d $u

I suspect you've got the "$u" and the "-d" switched, like this:

	Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=8, A=mail $u -d

At least, that's what the error message you're getting seems to imply.

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