Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78956
Sendmail fails to work if started by postfix
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: When I boot up the computer it comes up normal but sendmail does not work for e-mail. Trying to test a new rpm of sendmail I got it started working properly. Later I discovered any rpm of senmail works if I start it manually after booting up. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot up the computer 2.Send an e-mail 3.use #sendmail -q to send the e-mail Actual Results: The manual #sendmail -q does send out all the stored mail. Expected Results: Sendmail should send out any mail it gets. Additional info:
It is now apparent that there is nothing wrong with Sendmail or Postfix. What is wrong is my inability to understand either system. This is compounded by the Red Hat manuals which are mutually counter-dict-ave. The Mail Transport Agent Switcher does not work as shown in the manual. When I use #/sbin/service postfix stop it fails. I'm convinced that some interaction between postfix and sendmail account for my problem. I have wasted 3 days of work trying to fix this problem and must now just quit.