From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: Just after a RedHat 8.0 new installation, the system auto reboot. The sendmail and sm-client service started "OK". Stop the sendmail service:- service sendmail stop Subsequently, I do a up2date <sendmail package> to update from sendmail-8.12.5-7 to latest release 8.12.8.5.80. Up2date of sendmail when successful. Restart the sendmail service: service sendmail start Starting sendmail [OK] Startiing sm-client: No local mailer defines QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set [FAILED] The problem still persist, even I tried removing sendmail by service sendmail stop then rpm -e --nodeps sendmail-12.8.5.80 and reinstall the sendmail-8.12.5-7. OR I update sendmail with rpm -ivh sendmail-8.12.8.5.80 instead of up2date program. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.12.8.5.80 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.service sendmail stop 2.up2date sendmail (fm sendmail-8.12.5-7 to 8.12.8.5.80) 3.Upon successful upgrade, service sendmail start Starting sendmail: [OK] Actual Results: Error message: Starting sm-client: No local mailer defined QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set [FAILED] Expected Results: Starting sm-client: [OK] Additional info: